Nefesh, Columbia Hillel’s Mental Health Awareness group, is marking the end of their Mental Health Awareness Week with a visit from a special guest.
Steve Rosenfield of the What I Be Project will be photographing students at Columbia today and tomorrow. The What I Be Project is a form of artistic storytelling through portraits. The subject of each portrait chooses to share a mental health issue from which he or she struggles and is photographed saying, “I am not my _____ mental health issue.”
The goal? To teach people that they are not defined by their mental health struggles and to erase the stigma attached to a problem that so many people fight and overcome on a daily basis.
Look out for Steve Rosenfield around campus and get ready to be humbled as your classmates and friends publicly share their personal stories for the benefit of Columbia and Barnard’s mental health awareness.
To be added to the waiting list for the What I Be Project at Columbia, email president@hillel.columbia.edu.