Andre Mansion, PhD, JD

Dr. Mansion has spent his entire career fighting for the rights for every individual to receive effective and equitable mental health care, no matter who they are. He graduated with distinction in psychology from Duke University in 2008 and spent the following two years as the project director for a multi-site, longitudinal study at the University of Notre Dame. During this time, he volunteered at underfunded public elementary schools, helping students learn to read. where he saw first hand the negative effects of early justice system involvement of youth. Convinced that the solutions lay not in harsh punishments at the individual level, but in mass changes to our behavioral health care systems, he earned both his PhD in Clinical Science Psychology and his JD in Law, concurrently, from Arizona State University in 2018.

During his career, he has worked towards the improvement of mental health policy in various roles in diverse areas of industry, including higher education, defense, non-profit, to name a few. While working at Georgetown Law, he worked to end the school-to-prison pipeline seen in DC public schools. Seeing the similarities among justice-involved youth and combat soldiers (e.g., high rates of both trauma- and substance misuse-related disorders), he help improved prevention efforts and lower mental health-based stigma at the US Department of Defense. Hoping the results of his efforts would have a wider effect, he took a position at the American Psychological Association managing their Amicus Curiae Brief Program, where he helped prepare almost a dozen briefs for the courts, including several to the Supreme Court of the United States, that used psychological science to assist in the fair administration of justice.