Former TSN directors
Sarah Dalley
Sarah is a Senior Member Growth Marketer at Spring Health, a comprehensive mental health solution for employers and health plans. Throughout her professional and personal career, Sarah has been a witness to and a proponent of the power of communications; she is passionate about using conversation to form meaningful connections and facilitate positive change. In memory of the lives of her friends, Sarah is passionate about mental health advocacy and is devoted to using her marketing and communications work to improve the conversation and remove the stigma. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications. After serving on the Board of Directors for three years, Sarah is now an active TSN Ambassador.
Kelly Davis
Kelly Davis is the Director of Peer Advocacy, Supports, and Services at Mental Health America (MHA) where she works to promote the expansion of peer support throughout health care. She also leads MHA’s Collegiate Mental Health Innovation Council, which is dedicated to highlighting and expanding student-led programs that fill gaps in traditional services and supports on campus.
Kelly is passionate about empowerment, civil rights, positive psychology, peer support, and trauma-informed care. She has spoken about her lived experience at the Obama White House and on NBC Nightly News and has been featured in the Mighty, Mashable, University Business, Recovery Campus, and Yes! Magazine. She is a member of the advisory council for the Well Being Trust and is on the National Youth Advisory Council for Doors to Wellbeing, where she helped lead the first national youth-run, youth-focused mental health conference and developed a three-day youth empowerment training curriculum.
Bobby Dishell
Bobby Dishell is a student at the University of Colorado Law School in the Tax Emphasis Program. Upon graduation, he hopes to work on public-private partnerships, real estate, and public financing. Bobby co-founded the Wolverine Support Network during his time as Student Body President at the University of Michigan. After his time at Michigan, Bobby spent two years in Baltimore as a Teach for America Corps Member where he was a founding member of Happy Teacher Revolution and currently serves on their advisory board.
Bobby is passionate about mental health, peer support, and community development. Bobby's leadership and work have been featured in Endzone (#6 NY Times Best Selling Book), Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Education Week, Detroit Free Press, GQ, Forward, and other publications.
Sonia Doshi
Sonia Doshi is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Walt Disney Studios Technology team in Los Angeles. She was previously a Product Manager and Learning Experience Designer at a start-up called Imbellus. She received her Masters in Learning, Design, and Technology from the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she designed a platform called Huddle for undergraduates to work with their dorm-mates to navigate difficult conversations about mental illness. She's been working in mental health advocacy, design, and research for over 5 years.
For her work, Sonia received the Jed Foundation's 2015 Student Voice of Mental Health award. She served as a Board Member for the Steve Fund's Youth Advisory Board and the UMSI Alumni Society Board. She's been featured in The "O" Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, Time Magazine, USA Today, CBS News, and other releases speaking about the importance of college student mental health support and advocacy. She is incredibly excited about the growing conversation around college student mental health and continues to advocate for these causes at a local and national level.
Naomi Pohl
Naomi Pohl is a Software Engineer at Cisco; she builds internal tools to support the sales and marketing teams. She manages operations and technology for TSN. Naomi is passionate about developing technology that connects people (in real life!), improving mental health on college campuses and creating spaces for honest conversation.
Naomi graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Math and a Master’s in Computer and Information Technology. While at Penn, she co-founded The Dinner Project, a bi-weekly dinner gathering for 10 students who don't know one another to foster community and conversation. To date, The Dinner Project has held 25+ dinners and hosted 150+ students. Before graduating, she developed an app for The Dinner Project to ease the logistics of hosting a dinner. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of Impact Magazine, Penn’s only social impact publication.
Victor Schwartz M.D.
Victor has over 25 years of experience as a psychiatrist working in college mental health. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. Victor was medical director of NYU’s Counseling Service, established a counseling center at Yeshiva University where he subsequently served as the University Dean of Students. He was an original member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Presidential Task Force on College Mental Health, co-chair of the APA working group on legal issues in college mental health and is an APA Distinguished Life Fellow.
Victor served as a co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the College Student and has served as an advisor to HBO, Dear Evan Hansen, NCAA, NFL and NBA. He is co-editor with Dr. Jerald Kay, of Mental Health Care in the College Community (Wiley, 2010). Victor received a B.A. from Yeshiva College, earned his M.D. from SUNY Downstate Medical College and completed his Residency in Psychiatry at NYU Medical Center-Bellevue Hospital.