Janeane Bernstein is a mental health advocate, journalist, and speaker. She is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Women in Film.

In response to the global pandemic, she created the mental fitness podcast and event series, Outside the Box. Her unique events and engaging experiences focus on four key pillars: kindness, compassion, empathy and connection.

Bernstein is the author of Get the Funk Out! %^&* Happens, What to Do Next! (Post Hill Press | Simon & Schuster 2019) in which she shares stories of resilience and the importance of prioritizing mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. In 2023, her second book was published entitled Better Humans – What the Mental Health Pandemic Teaches Us About Humanity. She hosts a weekly live show called Get the Funk Out! on KUCI 88.9 FM and the Outside the Box with Dr. Janeane podcast.

She graduated from Syracuse University with a focus on communications and education and earned a doctorate from Boston University in Curriculum & Teaching. In 2021, she was selected to become an Age Boom Academy Fellow with the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She is currently an eCornell Course Facilitator at Cornell University.

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