Speakers

Jamie Vollmer

RHS Project Manager, Aspire Advocates for Behavioral Health

Jamie Vollmer serves as the Recovery High School (RHS) Project Manager and Outreach Specialist for Aspire Advocates for Behavioral Health, where she is a passionate advocate for youth mental health and substance use recovery. She is currently leading community engagement efforts to launch the St. Louis region’s first public recovery high school—an academically strong, recovery-centered, and joy-filled environment where students in recovery can thrive. Through outreach and advocacy, she is building a strong network of supporters to ensure the school opens with widespread community support and becomes a place where students in recovery can thrive—both academically and personally.

Liam Robertson

Student Board Members, Find the Light Foundation

Liam is a sophomore at Fort Zumwalt West High School. Liam is a person with profound hearing loss, autism, and ADHD who loves bringing a voice and awareness to the community on behalf of differently-abled people. Liam enjoys helping find creative ways to contact the community, find ways to include people of all abilities, and share information in a way that can be understood and utilized no matter what level of ability a person has.

Alex Schneider, MPH, CPH

Founder, Find the Light Foundation

Alex Schneider founded Find the Light Foundation because she was concerned with the growing rate of suicide and overdose in her area, and after losing friends to the mental health crisis. Alex is an epidemiologist and uses her experience in science, along with her background in advocacy and her experiences with her own mental health, to develop evidence-based strategies and programs within Find the Light Foundation. By combining her expertise in public health with her passion for mental health advocacy, Alex aims to address the root causes of mental health challenges and implement effective solutions.