Dr. Andre Mansion has devoted his career to advancing effective and equitable mental health care. He graduated with distinction in Psychology from Duke University in 2008 and spent the following two years as Project Director for a multi-site longitudinal study at the University of Notre Dame. During that time, he volunteered in under-resourced public elementary schools, helping students learn to read and witnessing firsthand the consequences of early justice-system involvement among youth. Convinced that meaningful change required systemic reform rather than punitive responses, he pursued both a Ph.D. in Clinical Science Psychology and a J.D. in Law concurrently at Arizona State University, completing both in 2018.

Throughout his career, Dr. Mansion has worked to strengthen mental health policy across the higher education, defense, and nonprofit sectors. At Georgetown Law, he helped address the school-to-prison pipeline affecting D.C. public schools. Recognizing parallels between justice-involved youth and combat veterans—particularly the high prevalence of trauma- and substance-related disorders—he advanced prevention efforts and reduced mental-health stigma within the U.S. Department of Defense. Seeking broader impact, Dr. Mansion later joined the American Psychological Association, where he managed the Amicus Curiae Brief Program and contributed to nearly a dozen briefs, including several submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, leveraging psychological science to promote the fair administration of justice.