I Am Not A Monster: Schizophrenia | Cecilia McGough | TEDxPSU

Cecilia McGough puts a face to schizophrenia and helps empower college students. She is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the non-profit Students With Psychosis, which is the only non-profit in the United States focused on empowering college students with schizophrenia.

As an astronomer, activist, and writer as a Penn State Schreyer Honors College scholar pursuing a major in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Cecilia is working to break the stigma surrounding schizophrenia. Cecilia is the founder and president of the Penn State Pulsar Search Collaboratory. She has been participating in pulsar research continuously since December of 2009, co-discovering pulsar J1930-1852 with the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star, competing in the International Space Olympics held in Russia, and co-authoring her research in the Astrophysics Journal.

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