Board of Directors and Regional Representatives

Lindsay Garcia (she/her) is the Assistant Dean of the College for Junior/Senior Studies and Recovery/Substance-Free Student Initiatives at Brown University. She is also a socially engaged artist, scholar, teacher, academic advisor, and person in long term recovery. As director of Brown’s Donovan Program for Recovery and Substance-Free Initiatives, she oversees multidimensional support for students, faculty, and staff in recovery or who identify as substance free for any reason, including co-facilitating support groups, making referrals to additional professional, social, and emotional supports, advising the SoBear Student Activities Club, and managing the Donovan House, a 17-bed substance-free program house. Lindsay is an appointed member of the Rhode Island Governor’s Council on Behavioral Health and a board member of RICARES, a Providence-based recovery community organization (RCO). She received her PhD in American Studies from William & Mary and her MFA in Visual Art from Purchase College, State University of New York.

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