[Insight] Theresa Miskimen Rivera: taking her seat at the APA with Latina spirit

Coming from a lineage of strong women has helped shape Theresa Miskimen Rivera's identity and drive. A clinical professor of psychiatry at Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (NJ, USA), she is also the current President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), an esteemed position in which she hopes to leverage policy change by connecting with policy makers themselves, “because there is no health without mental health”, she says.