Jhilmil Breckenridge (UK)

Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the founder of Bhor Foundation, an Indian charity, which is active in mental health advocacy, the trauma informed approach, and enabling other choices to heal apart from or in addition to the biomedical model.

She advocates Poetry as Therapy and is working on a few initiatives, both in the UK and India, taking this into prisons and mental health institutions. She has recently co-edited a collection of essays on mental health and this was published as Side Effects of Living (Women Unlimited and Speaking Tiger, 2019).