John Head

Advisory Board

John Head is the author of Black Men and Depression: Saving Our Lives, Healing Our Families and Friends (originally published in hardcover as Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men.” The book is based on his experiences with clinical depression. He was a recipient of the 2005 Erasing the Stigma Leadership Award presented by the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center in Los Angeles. Previous honorees include former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. He worked for more than 20 years as a journalist for the Detroit Free Press, USA TODAY and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and served as press secretary to Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African-American mayor.