Healing That Honors The Whole Self
Hello, I’m Allilsa!
pronounced ah-jil-sah
I’m a mental health and disability advocate, activist, and consultant committed to building systems that center BIPOC and disabled communities. My work blends policy, storytelling, and direct support to create spaces where healing is accessible, dignified, and rooted in justice.
Featured in the press:
Jim Preis Memorial Award, Mental Health Advocacy Services
Advocate of the Year Award Recipient, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Forbes: Article on Disability in the Workplace
“The Homeless Can’t Stay” Short Documentary
Peer Mental Health Alliance at Stonybrook University
Services
I help organizations build genuinely inclusive workplaces by auditing and redesigning disability policies, creating culturally responsive training programs, and developing accountability systems that center BIPOC and disabled employees. From accessibility audits to leadership training on intersectional disability justice, I work with your team to move beyond compliance toward authentic inclusion — ensuring your policies and practices reflect the lived experiences of the communities you're trying to serve.
Places I’ve Collaborated With:
Facebook
Lionsgate
Verizon
ReelAbilities Los Angeles
I partner with community organizations and nonprofits to build sustainable, culturally rooted mental health initiatives. My work centers on fostering genuine community — helping you build stronger connections, deepen mutual knowledge, and create cultures of care within your organization. I facilitate interactive workshops on decolonizing mental health, integrate mental health justice frameworks into your programs, and develop suicide prevention strategies grounded in social justice. Whether you're strengthening internal team wellness or designing community-facing mental health initiatives, I help you create spaces where healing is collective, culturally affirming, and rooted in liberation.
Organizations I’ve worked with:
Sylvia Rivera Law Project on shelter organizing
Met Council on housing justice
Road Home, providing mental health resources to community
I bring lived experience, professional expertise, and community wisdom to every speaking engagement. Drawing from my work as a social worker, community organizer, and disabled organizing advocate, I deliver trauma-informed presentations that center real stories and actionable frameworks. Whether I'm speaking on decolonizing mental health, disability justice, suicide prevention, or intersectional advocacy, I create space for authentic dialogue while providing concrete resources your audience can use immediately.
Accolades & Features:
Fellow, The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation
Fellow, Latino Justice Law Bound
Featured in Forbes Magazine
Featured on The Laura Flanders Show
Communal Mental Health
Communal Mental Health is a fiscally sponsored organization where I serve as Executive Director. We provide information, resources, and support centered on BIPOC communities — especially Disabled, Queer, and Trans/Non-Conforming folks. Our work is rooted in the belief that healing happens in community, and that economic resources should flow directly to the people doing that work.
Partner with Communal Mental Health and invest directly in BIPOC Queer and Trans community members. When you collaborate with us, you're providing meaningful economic support while creating space for authentic community engagement and skill-building. Together, we can model what it looks like when organizations truly center the communities they serve.
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