Deborah Mejchar

Deb is a Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) and CPS trainer. She has lived experience of incarceration and following her release from prison worked as a Chaplain in the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for 17 years. She regularly facilitates Restorative Justice and CPS Support groups at multiple state prisons. For the past four years, Deb has worked closely with the lab on a variety of grant-funded projects to promote the mental health and well-being of currently and formerly incarcerated people, including as a peer co-facilitator for Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD.