E92 – Poetess and philanthropist human Yashi Brown is the daughter of Rebbie Jackson (and a member of the famed musical Jackson family), Yashi began taking her poetry very seriously in her teens, then more significantly by her early twenties when she started experiencing the onset of emotional challenges. Soon after, she was diagnosed with severe Bipolar Disorder Type I, and began a personal journey for which she was ill prepared for – save for the beauty of the words in which she sought her solace. In 2011, Yashi became a national ambassador for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the largest grassroots mental health advocacy organization in the country and today consults and works closely on the Campaign to Change Direction. She has a new audio poetry and music project in the works and an upcoming re-release of her acclaimed poetry collection, Black Daisy in a White Limousine. (58:15)

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