Speaking Grey
Lived Experience → Knowledge → Agency
The fellowship works with individuals navigating complex lived experiences to document, understand, and translate what they are living through into knowledge and tools others can use.
Fellows get a platform and mentorship to turn lived experience into lasting knowledge and build agency in mental health.
A sustained partnership.
Fellows work directly with Speaking Grey over time — developing ideas, translating lived experience into tools, and building pathways toward long-term work in mental health advocacy.
The fellowship adapts to each fellow’s health, capacity, pace, and goals.
Fellows work closely with our team while maintaining full creative ownership.
Support across writing, visual design, digital formats, and distribution.
Connection to fellowships, opportunities, and long-term collaboration.
The fellowship adapts to the health and life circumstances of each fellow.
not productivity.
The fellowship begins with conversation, not output.
Every fellow enters with different health realities, capacities, timelines, and goals. The process adapts accordingly — allowing the work to grow sustainably over time.
We begin with conversations about what you want to explore, your circumstances, and what support would be most useful.
Fellows work closely with our team to shape ideas, explore formats, and build meaningful long-form work.
The work evolves into essays, reflection tools, audio stories, guides, and digital resources others can use.
Throughout the fellowship, we identify opportunities, collaborations, and pathways that support sustained work in mental health advocacy.
feels like yours —
We accept expressions of interest on a rolling basis from people navigating rare and complex conditions or realities shaped by identity and circumstance.
You do not need a polished proposal or a clear project.
If you are living through something you think Speaking Grey should know about — that is enough to begin.
Just a conversation starter