Speaker's Profile

Kelly Davis, MPH, MS is the Vice President of Peer and Youth Advocacy at Mental Health America, where she works to expand peer support and young adult leadership. Kelly helped start the first national youth peer support coalition, contributed to federal peer support certification standards, and has authored peer-reviewed and public-facing publications on youth peer support, disability rights, and the intersection of lived experience, peer support, and LLMs. She holds degrees in law and society, nonprofit leadership, and public health from American University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a national study on digital tools in youth peer support at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.