The Jed Foundation

JED is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults. We’re partnering with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programs and systems. We’re equipping teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other. We’re encouraging community awareness, understanding and action for young adult mental health.

Chief Executive Officer

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Advisory Board Member, Health Policy and Management Department

Social Innovation Summit

Social Innovation Leadership Council is a close-knit network of #CSR, #ESG, #DEI, and purpose-driven experts focused on supporting each other with questions or requests for ideas, resources, connections, insights, and more. Learn more at https://sisomni.com/.

Member, Social Innovation Leadership Council

The City College of New York

Executive Advisory Board, S Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders

National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention

Steering Committee Member

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company driven to improve the lives of those affected by chronic disorders of the central nervous system.

Member Board Of Directors; Nominating Committee; past member of Audit Commitee

BlackThorn Therapeutics (acquired by Neumora)

BlackThorn Therapeutics was a privately-held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in San Francisco. Acquired by Neumora (neumoratx.com).

Board of Directors; Compensation Committee; Audit Committee

Trek Medics International

Trek Medics International is dedicated to reducing the global burden of premature death and disability in vulnerable communities through the development of prehospital and emergency care services.

Advisor

HIV Experience Resources Organization (HERO)

HIV Experience Resources Organization (HERO) is an online resource to navigate a complicated system to get help if you are newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Crisis Text Line

Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 emotional support for those in crisis.

National Advisory Board Member

Nonprofit and public health leader focused on protecting emotional health and preventing suicide for teens and young adults.

Successful track record launching and growing new products and organizations - participated in or led the launch of more than 30 new products and services.

John MacPhee

The Jed Foundation (JED)

A member of JED's Executive Team, I lead our School Programs and Consulting Division, consisting of five departments including: High School Programs, District Programs, Higher Education Programs, Program Operations, and Consulting. Leading national efforts to scale and implement JED's innovative school mental health and suicide prevention programs, my team and I collectively improve mental health outcomes for more than 6.5 million students by helping schools, districts and higher education institutions build excellent, comprehensive mental health programs.

Senior Vice President, School Programs & Consulting

University of Maryland

Advisory Board Member, National Center For School Mental Health housed in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

Advisory Board Member, National Center for School Mental Health

Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Responsible for developing and implementing the Institute’s statewide strategy to support and promote school-linked mental health across Texas’s 1,200 school districts and 200+ higher education institutions: identifying efficiencies of scale, high impact levers, and establishing and maintaining deep transformative relationships with key stakeholders including the Texas Education Agency, Education Service Centers and Higher Education Coordinating Board. Primary responsibilities included product development, building strong relationships with prospective business and philanthropic partners, strategic planning, branding and communications strategy, developing effective messaging for the education team, translating the Institute’s framework for school mental health into an actionable and statewide strategy relevant to both K-12 and higher education, developing a body of school-linked mental health work aimed at deepening positive outcomes for Texas students, and leading the innovation and design of new school mental health services, projects and programs. Also provided project oversight to high impact school mental health consulting projects statewide and nationally.

Vice President of Education Strategy & Innovation

Uplift Education

Served as a member of Uplift Education’s senior leadership team, supervising the design, growth, operations, finances and performance of the Student Support Services Division and its accompanying large central leadership team. Supervised and led five departments, and their leaders, providing a large number of wraparound support programs and services for the organization’s 44 schools and 23,000 students and families.  Departments reporting through Student Support Services included: (1) Counseling Services, (2) Social and Emotional Learning, (3) Prevention and Support Programs, and (4) Student Discipline and Restorative Practices and (5) Strategic and Community Partnerships, in addition to numerous other programs such as Homeless and Foster services, and crisis response management. Provided leadership to central office and campus principals related to navigating complex student and family issues, such as working with law enforcement, local agencies and risk mitigation.

Senior Director, Student Support Services

Appointed as founding Director of the Student Support Services for Uplift Education and tasked with building out programs for the new Student Support Service department. This included developing additional support services and wraparound programs for the district, and establishing a department brand and philanthropic support.  Major leadership responsibilities included: continued leadership and buildout of Uplift’s mental health counseling program, developing district bullying-related processes, developing district crisis response efforts, developing student service-related compliance trainings, and establishing other student facing wraparound prevention curriculums and related community partnerships. The Director of Student Support Services also supervised a central office leadership team of 4, and a team of 30+ school counselors. After 2 years successful leadership in this role promoted to a newly formed Senior Director role (Assistant Superintendent-Level).

Director of Counseling & Student Support Services

Promoted to continue leadership and development of the newly formed Social/Behavioral Counseling Program. In this role, I developed all aspects of an innovative school-based mental health counseling program including the direct supervision and management of a team of 21 licensed counselors, and established operational procedures, community partnerships, program branding and philanthropic support.

District Coordinator of Counseling Services

Recruited nationally to join North Hills Preparatory, an Uplift Education school, named one of the top 20 best high schools in the United States, to work in all aspects as a professional school counselor and provide comprehensive counseling services to students in response to personal and social needs, crisis intervention, problem-solving, academic concerns, etc.  This role worked to design and implement a prototype alumni counseling program (INSPIRE program) at North Hills Preparatory geared towards transitioning high school graduates to college by providing mental health resources, social-emotional support and ensuring students' personal and academic success throughout their college years.  During Year 2 in this role having successfully founded the INSPIRE program, I identified a need for, and proposed the development of, a new type of mental health counseling program and was later tasked by Uplift Education’s CEO with leadership responsibilities for this work, including initial program planning and development and hiring of new staff.  In 2013-14, I served as the Lead Social/Behavioral Counselor for Uplift Education and provided direct supervision to a newly formed team of 12 mental health counselors.

District Lead Counselor

Tony Walker, Professional Counseling and Consulting Services

Principal and owner, providing a wide array of clinical mental health and consultative services including professional psychotherapy, group counseling, clinical supervision of LPC-interns and LPC-associates, and clinical diagnostics, with a specialty in adolescent mental health issues. Also available to provide related management consulting services to schools, education institutions, and corporate engagements with a focus on school mental health, wellbeing and employee culture and mental health.

Principal, and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor

Texas Tech University

PhD Candidate

NCADA

Delivered expert instruction at schools and businesses as a mental-health educator on topics such as wellness, stress and anger management, current trends in substance use, drug specific seminars, dangers of energy drinks, bullying, dignity, healthy relationships, and leadership skills. Assisted with the design of evidence-based, engaging mental health outreach programs for schools (K-12), universities, and organizations throughout Eastern Missouri on varying mental health topics based on community needs, current trends, and school- specific requests.

Mental Health Educator and Prevention Specialist

St. Louis Public Schools

Served as a high school social studies teacher in a Title I urban school as part of the Teach for America corps.  Pushed students towards meaningful academic gains while building motivating personal relationships and strong classroom culture to inspire them outside of the classroom.  In this role, I am most proud of establishing an innovative student internship program that involved building relationships with local businesses and non-profits to serve as internship sites for students.  This program and its structure were later adopted school-wide.

High School Teacher

Teach for America

Selected from a highly competitive pool of over 35,000 applicants nationwide to join the national teacher corps of outstanding college graduates who commit to two years of teaching in under-resourced, high need public schools.

2008 Corps Member

Alternatives Unlimited

Special Education Teacher

Dr. Tony Walker serves on the executive team of The Jed Foundation (JED) – a national nonprofit thought leader on school mental health and youth suicide prevention. In his role, Dr. Walker leads JED’s School Programs and Consulting team supporting the implementation of JED’s programs, consultation work, and best practices of comprehensive school mental health and suicide prevention programming across more than 1,000 schools and reaching more than 7 million students.

Prior to joining JED, he served as a leader at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute in his home state of Texas, contributing to public policy discussion on matters of school-linked mental health and leading a portfolio of consulting projects in support of the state's 1,200 school districts and 200+ higher education institutions related to mental health programs and best-in-class student services.

Previously, Dr. Walker worked in multiple roles in public education, including as a teacher, school counselor and most recently as an executive district leader over Student Support Services at Uplift Education. Founding this work in 2011, Uplift developed and implemented one of the largest school-based mental health systems in Texas allowing students and families access to a full array of wraparound programs and supports.

Tony is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified School Counselor, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Missouri, a Master’s degree in Counseling, and Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Texas Tech University. His research interests include leader coaching and mentorship, school-based mental health program development, and mental health crisis response across PK-12 and Higher Education systems, as well as LGBTQ+ issues in mental health. 🌈

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