About me
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman Mthimkhulu (they/she) is a Mad, Disabled, multidisciplinary care strategist/worker, educator, psychiatric survivor, and healing practitioner. They are a white, queer, non-binary person of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, rooted in lineages of Disability Justice, Mad Liberation, decolonial resistance, and the reclamation of ancestral and cultural healing traditions. As Director of Project LETS, Stefanie works to build systems of community mental health care outside the state, supporting peers and care workers in anti-carceral, liberatory practice. They have written extensively about psychiatric abolition in practice, and collaborate with Brooklyn Law School's Disability Rights Clinic at the intersection of disability law and family preservation.
