Zachary Murguía Burton, Ph.D.
About Zachary Murguía Burton, Ph.D.
I'm here to help destigmatize mental health. I co-created and lead The Manic Monologues (2022 NASPA Excellence Awards Winner; 2022 Artios Awards Nom; 2021 Drama League Awards Nom; 2021 BroadwayWorld Awards Nom; 2020 Cloris Awards Winner). I serve on boards for batyr, Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health, Coalition for Action for Preventive MH-Kenya, Adversity 2 Advocacy Alliance, & fmrly GenMH & Glenn Close's Bring Change to Mind. I serve on Harvard Business Review's Advisory Council and as committee co-chair of Yale's Latino Recovery Colectivo. I've written for International Bipolar Foundation, Devex, & UnitedGMH, and have been invited to speak/present for TEDx, Amazon, California Hospital Association, Stanford School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, One Mind, NAMI, UCLA, UCSF, SFPD, SFSU, ZSFG, CIIS, CJA, AdventHealth, Project Happiness, IBPF, Unit3d/Hilinski's Hope, The Hope Matrix, Minding Your Mind, Prezi, McCarter Theatre/Princeton University, etc. My efforts to disrupt stigma have been recognized by Washington Post, NPR, New York Times, Fast Company, Modern Healthcare, Psychology Today, NAMI, The Mighty, MSN, ABC, NY1, NJ State Council on the Arts, iHeartRadio, Playbill, BroadwayWorld, American Theatre, Broadway.com, The Stage, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, & more. I'm also a scientist and Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, and serve as board member to SSERD (STEM NGO in India) & fmrly NES-American Chemical Society. I've worked for SETI/NASA, US Dept. of Energy, Stanford GSB, a Fortune 500 energy producer, DoD, & others. My research is published in Science Advances, Geophysical Research Letters, Internat'l Journal of Earth Sciences, & others. I've written for The Professional Geologist & United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, and have been invited to speak/present for TEDx, Vail Global Energy Forum, US Dept. of State, Cleantech Open at PG&E Energy Center, Geological Society of America, Sigma Xi, American Geophysical Union, Stanford Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering, Houston Organic Geochemistry Society, & others. My work has been featured by CNN, Popular Science, Live Science, Daily Mail, ABC, NASA, B Lab, Impact Management Project, Stanford GSB, Stanford Earth, Bowdoin College, Umeå University, Austria Presse Agentur, Europa Press, Prensa Latina, New Scientist, Space, Universe Today, MSN, ScienceAlert, Navbharat Times, India.com, bilibili, 163.com, Sina, The Sun, Yahoo!, Martha Stewart, & over 100 others. I also love gardening, hitchhiking, and writing poetry, which has been featured in The Wall Street Journal. #disruptstigma