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Dr. Zachary Burton and Elisa Hofmeister
Creators & Co-Founders of THE MANIC MONOLOGUES

Dr. Zachary Burton,
co-founder

Zack leads the organization, while serving on boards for Columbia-WHO Center for Global MH, Coalition for Action for Preventive MH in Kenya, and an education NGO in India. He's Editor for a post-traumatic growth storytelling nonprofit, and was advisor to Glenn Close’s mental health nonprofit. Zack earned a PhD from Stanford University and lives with bipolar I disorder.

Elisa Hofmeister,
co-founder

Elisa is an MD student at University of Minnesota. Before, she was a researcher at Stanford Medicine's Departments of Psychiatry & Medicine and at KAIST in South Korea, and served as advisor to Glenn Close’s mental health nonprofit. She holds a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford.