Witness gave you the lens. Advocate gives you the history and the frameworks to name exactly how it operates.
You completed Witness. You have a positionality statement. You understand the racist and antiracist dichotomy. You can see what others around you may still be refusing to see.
That foundation is everything — because what comes next requires it.
The times are volatile. DEI offices are being dismantled. Anti-racism training is being challenged in courts and legislatures. The political ground beneath this work is not stable.
And yet: people are more galvanized than ever. Understanding history — really understanding it, not a sanitized version — is one of the most powerful forms of protection available to us. When you know how racism has operated across centuries, no one can gaslight you about what is happening in the present.
The Advocate Tier is not more theory for its own sake. It is the historical and theoretical foundation that makes antiracist practice legible — and ultimately executable.
In Witness, you answered: Who am I in relation to this work? In Advocate, you answer: How did we get here — and what am I now able to recognize?
The Advocate Tier is the second tier of the Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship, developed by Dr. Rupi Legha, Harvard-trained, double-board-certified psychiatrist and one of the leading voices on racism as a public health issue.
This tier is for those who want to intervene. Designed with practitioners in mind — and open to anyone ready to go deeper.
BY THE END OF ADVOCATE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Trace the historical arc from slavery and colonization to your clinical encounter today
- Name how the mental health profession has pathologized, experimented on, and excluded people of color — and recognize when it still does
- Define racism and whiteness with precision, using the frameworks of Camara Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, and Rhea Boyd
- Identify racist tropes operating in clinical settings and supervision — and name the harm they produce
- Apply an intersectional lens to clinical scenarios, recognizing how compounding oppressions produce compounding harm
What separates Advocate from Witness: every module now includes a key reading, a self-reflection exercise, and scenario-based assessments — because recognition is a skill that requires practice, not just knowledge.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT COMFORT.
Advocate will ask you to sit with history that is painful — and not yet over. It will ask you to reflect genuinely, not performatively, on where you have been complicit, where you have been harmed, and where you have been both at once.
Collective action depends on the courage of many individuals. Including you.It’s about clarity. You can’t protect people — or yourself — from systems you don’t understand.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- 5 comprehensive modules covering deep history, the profession’s harms, resistance movements, definitions of racism and whiteness, and intersectionality
- Key readings curated for each module Self-reflection exercises in every module
- Scenario-based assessments testing recognition and application
- 5 CMEs accredited through Learner+
- Access to the AntiracistMD LinkedIn Community
- Advocate Tier Completion Badge for professional recognition
- Option to advance to Advocate+ — Invest today and save $397