Full Name
Ishaa Vinod Chopra
Speaker Bio
Ishaa’s approach extrapolates her lived experiences in mental health and applies them to research, mental health advocacy, and multidisciplinary arts. In her Memoir ‘Finding Order in Disorder’; in lucid, simple prose, she addresses what it is like to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, how it affects interpersonal relationships, and how societal norms influence our understanding of and responses to mental health issues. As a Research Associate of a York University Master’s Thesis documentary project titled ‘Unfinished,’ she explores her journey in mental health through an autoethnographic documentary film.