Our Team

Glenn Roil is a global mental health and basic income advocate with over 30 years of education and work experience in the fields of mental health, poverty reduction and housing issues. He is the Co-Lead of the Americas Region with the Global Mental Health Peer Network, and a member of the Government of NL’s Department of Community Services Towards Recovery Action Plan, and of the Legislative Stakeholders Committee reviewing the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act. Formerly, Glenn was a NL representative of the Canadian Mental Health Association, the National Council of Persons with Lived Experience, a member of the Community Sector Council of NL Vibrant Communities St. John’s, the Citizen Voice Network, and one of the public figures of Government of NL’s  anti-stigma mental health and addictions campaign called “Understanding Changes Everything”. He has trained with the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Mental Health Commision of Canada. Glenn was the recipient of the 2021 NL Human Rights Awards Champion for Mental Health from the Government of NL’s Human Rights Commission, and the 2022 recipient of the Lionel Aldridge Champions Award from the National Alliance of Mental Illness in the United States of America. He has his own mental health story and his mental health advocacy work profiled and published in the Narrative Inquiry and Voices John Hopkins University affiliated bioethics Medical Journals.