Hello, I’m Shannon Pagdon

I’m a researcher, consultant, and lived experience advocate working at the intersections of psychosis, peer support, and systems transformation. I bring over a decade of experience across direct support, participatory research, advocacy, and training, grounded in equity, harm reduction, and non-coercive approaches to care.

I help programs, researchers, and communities move beyond tokenism to meaningfully integrate lived experience at all levels of decision-making. Whether through co-designing roles, supporting culture change, or imagining alternatives to force and carceral logics, I work to create spaces of care with integrity, imagination, and depth.

What I Offer

I collaborate with a wide range of partners, from clinical teams and academic researchers to grassroots collectives and peer-run orgs.

My services include:

• Building systems that center lived experience
• Qualitative, participatory, and arts-based research partnerships
• Public speaking, facilitation, and survivor-led trainings
• Advising on alternatives to coercion and systems transformation
• Creative and community-based projects that reimagine care
• I work both within and beyond systems, supporting institutional change and partnering with communities creating liberatory alternatives.

If you're working toward a more just and compassionate approach to mental health, I’d love to be in conversation.