Lucy Costa
Lucy Costa is deputy executive director of the Empowerment Council, an independent service user rights-based organization in Toronto, Canada. She works as an advocate promoting the rights of mental health service users/survivors, as well as encouraging critical analysis about service user inclusion in the mental health sector. She has developed education curriculum for many stakeholders, including psychiatry residents at the University of Toronto. She has written a number of articles and blogs and is co-editor of Madness Violence and Power: A Critical Collection (U of T Press, 2019) as well as a special edition of the Journal of Ethics and Mental Health (2019).