11/10/2022
We are honored to announce Gomez as the first-ever recipient of the Mental Health Innovations (“Mentee”) Award for Excellence in Mental Health Advocacy.
Selena has consistently used her platform as a force for good to normalize mental health, sharing her experience with bipolar across her platform and in her recent documentary “My Mind and Me”. Her advocacy has included providing educational content through , an approachable mental health blog with clinical quality information, co-founded with her mother . In addition, Selena’s Rare Impact Foundation with has committed to raise $100M for mental health resources and her advocacy has already touched the lives of millions of people around the world, with a focus on racially and culturally diverse communities.
The Mentie award, designed by pays homage to the Japanese tradition of Kitsugi, mending broken pottery with golden mortar. Selena has brought this to life through her vulnerable transparency around her journey with mental health, and her stigma-free Rare Beauty brand, teaching us to embrace and celebrate our imperfections as beautiful and worthy.
