Angela Babaev
D.N.P., C.N.S., M.S.N.
Chair
Queens, NY
Angela Babaev is an Advanced Nurse DNP/RN and Clinical Nurse Specialist CNS with more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Dr Babaev spent the last 20 years as an executive nursing leader promoting quality excellence in patient care.
Dr. Babaev has overseen the educational, managerial and financial operations in hospital systems, created an innovative nurse recruitment and retention program, led workshops locally and internationally, served as a Lecturer of Program for International Nurses (PIN) and served as 2021-2023 president of the Greater New York Organization of Nurse Executives and Leaders.
In addition to her professional role, Dr. Babaev has dedicated more than 20 years as an active community volunteer, philanthropist and passionate mental health advocate for people with serious mental illness and their families, serving as a board member for NAMI-QN and a Family To Family Instructor (a NAMI program for caregivers).
Linda L. Mimms
M.A.
Linda has been an advocate for reform in public policy, law, insurance and treatment protocols for people living with serious neurobiological brain disorders for more than 12 years. She began her career as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill for Xerox Corporation, moved on to working for the U.S. State Department in Boston and then as U.S. Sen. Alan J. Dixon’s Government Affairs/Legislative Analyst Assistant in Chicago and Washington, D.C. As the creator and manager of the Public Relations and Employee Communications Department for Quill Corporation, Linda authored and edited seven informational books and manuals on business productivity, with more than 100 articles and business tips published nationally in newspapers, magazines, newsletters and catalogs. She has been a featured speaker at several national meetings, including the Capitol Hill briefing “People With Schizophrenia Face Severe Treatment Barriers: Regulatory, Policy Solutions Urgently Needed To Address Inequity,” in May 2023; the Public Policy Panel at the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance 2020 symposium; The Hill 2021 national event “The New Role of Telehealth;” and Center Forward’s 2022 Capitol Hill Healthcare Summit. Linda’s podcasts, commentaries and editorials addressing the lack of a continuum of care and criminalization of those with serious brain disorders, one of the greatest injustices of our time, have been published nationally and locally.
Linda earned an M.A. in Public Policy from Duke University and a B.A. in Anthropology from Lawrence University. She is Vice Chair of S&PAA and a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the California Coalition for CARE/Grave Disability Workgroup and the National Shattering Silence Coalition (NSSC). She serves on Lawrence University’s President’s Advisory Council. In 2020, she established the Lawrence Fund for Serious Mental Illness Advocacy Internships to give students the opportunity to learn about serious brain diseases, their criminalization and how to build solutions for better access to medical treatment with supportive care and housing.
