Mahate Osborn says programs centered on the diverse needs and wants of the facility’s users are a priority for her.
Raised in Colorado’s mountains in a home far from neighboring houses, the Oakland resident said books and nature formed the earliest foundation for connections and “allowed access to a world of possibilities.
Osborn is often drawn to poetry that she said allows for “holes” that aren’t either/or and permit the mind and imagination to roam the spaces within. She mentions Nikki Giovanni and Mary Oliver, then jumps to nonfiction and Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us.” The book examines how different cultures perceive psychiatric illness and the rippling impact those narratives have on individuals and communities.
From that experience, Osborn went on to earn a bachelor of arts degree in multicultural counseling from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington; a master’s in library and information science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu; and a master’s in clinical psychology from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill.
“At the call center, I received calls from people all around Oakland. The library had been a place they had gone for basic needs: talking to other people, getting help with job applications, learning how to use a mouse, so many fundamental things. People who were housebound expressed gratitude that we were even available on the phone.”
Specific examples and a flurry of ideas that sail on the wind of Osborn’s considerable energy form a list of dreams.
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