Valeria Chambers

Valeria Chambers is founder of Blacks Voices: Pathways4Recovery, a Massachusetts-based advocacy and leadership support network for Blacks and African Americans. She uses her lived experience as a Certified Peer Specialist trainer and facilitator in the mental health peer support arena while working as a Community Researcher at the Health Equity Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, the Center of Excellence for Psychosocial and Systemic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and for the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.