Alishia Dauterive

Alishia Dauterive (she/her) is a multiethnic peer supporter and diverse community health advocate with nine years of training and experience in Peer Respite (2nd Story), employment services for those with mental health distress, and government mental health policy. She credits the peer community for sharing perspectives with her that supported her growth and credits her lived experience of ancestral connection and altered states for teaching her humility, and how to share space with pain. Her current full-time employment is with the University of California, Davis, on the EPI-CAL (Early Psychosis Intervention) Training and Technical Assistance team where she leads peer support service and consultation for their Lived Experience Integration team and reviews, develops, and presents trainings and learning collaboratives for EPI-CAL partners. For UC Davis health, she supervises peer staff at the EDAPT/SacEDAPT early psychosis clinics where she also partners with leadership to develop space for the genuine peer perspective. In her spare time, Alishia enjoys writing fiction, hiking, paddleboarding, and annoying her cat with too many hugs.