Coleman Yorke studied Global Mental Health at Trinity College Dublin. He will next attend medical school at Brown University. A resident of New York City, he obtained his undergraduate degree at Columbia University where he studied English and Psychology. He was also a Masters’ student at Oxford University where he studied Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience. In his dissertations at Oxford, he investigated the implementation of peer support as a potential protective measure for adolescents experiencing social isolation and the mechanisms of action in antidepressants for young people. He recently lived in Seoul, South Korea as a Luce Scholar, where he worked in the Youth and Young Adult Development Lab at Yonsei University examining the relationship between clinical biomarkers and mood and anxiety disorders in adolescents. Coleman hopes to develop more widely available and relatable mental health and psychoeducational curricula alongside acting as a clinician to increase mental health literacy and support young people. In doing so, he is interested in redefining our cultural conception of mental illness that treats it as a weakness rather than an objective health concern as a means to combat stigmatization.  Coleman also served as a crisis counselor, grief facilitator, hospice volunteer, patient escort and caregiver support volunteer within various organizations. In his free time, he can often be found at a rock-climbing gym or reading.