stefanie lyn kaufman-mthimkhulu
Founder & Director
Stefanie (they/she) is a Mad, Disabled, multidisciplinary care strategist/worker, educator, psychiatric survivor, and healing practitioner. They are a white, queer, non-binary person of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, rooted in lineages of Disability Justice, Mad Liberation, decolonial resistance, and the reclamation of ancestral and cultural healing traditions. As Director of Project LETS, Stefanie works to build systems of community mental health care outside the state, supporting peers and care workers in anti-carceral, liberatory practice. They have written extensively about psychiatric abolition in practice, and collaborate with Brooklyn Law School's Disability Rights Clinic at the intersection of disability law and family preservation.
Contact: stefanie@projectlets.org
Heena Sharma
Director of Movement Building & Operations
Heena (they/she) is a nonbinary, disabled, mentally ill South Asian lesbian striving towards abolitionist futures that center survivors of violence. A lifelong New Yorker, Heena has worked on the margins of decolonial political education, radical accompaniment and solidarity, and autonomous care work in their roles as an educator, community organizer, and youth co-conspirator. At Project LETS, they lead the organization's movement-building strategy and community partnerships with a focus on cultivating disability justice and psychiatric abolition solidarity networks.
Contact: heena@projectlets.org
Sarah Broas
Manager, Anti-Carceral Mental Health Response Program
Sarah (they/them) is a white, queer, Disabled and Mad careworker. They are a writer, artist, advocate, and organizer focusing on Mad Liberation and psychiatric abolition. Their own experiences of psychiatric survivorship guide their approach, vision, and practice of community-based, non-carceral care. Sarah manages the Anti-Carceral Mental Health Response Program at Project LETS, and is the artist and creator behind Mad Mail, a mutual aid fund by and for Mad & Disabled folks.
Contact: sarah@projectlets.org
In addition to our core staff, we are incredibly grateful for our network of Peer Supporters and Crisis Responders— whose identities we keep private.