Rachel Bryant, MA, is an educator and administrator with more than two decades of experience in public mental health and a pedagogical orientation in Black, Indigenous, and Liberation Praxis. She currently serves as the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she has helped teach, mentor, and launch the careers of hundreds of emerging mental health clinicians from diverse backgrounds.

From 2009 to 2017, she was the Director of the Mental Health Services Act Project at CIIS, which recruited and retained graduate students underrepresented in the mental health workforce. Skilled in group facilitation, strategic planning, program development, fundraising, and evaluation, Rachel has experience winning and managing six- and seven-figure grants from state, county, and private foundation partners. She has administered behavioral health services and programming at the Alameda County Public Health Department and the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. She holds a Master of Counseling Psychology degree with a concentration in Community Mental Health from CIIS and has also served as an Assistant Professor in CIIS’ Master of Counseling Psychology and Undergraduate Studies programs.