Our Team

Courtney is a community mental health educator and advocate whose work involves providing practical tools and activities for mental health healing and wellbeing to community members, groups, and organizations including support groups and healing circles, discussion groups, trainings and workshops. She currently serves as the Operations Director for Steel Smiling, a Pittsburgh based, Black-led nonprofit whose mission is to bridge the gap between Black folks and mental health support through education, advocacy, and awareness. Courtney contributes to Steel Smiling’s mission by overseeing day to day activities of the Steel Healing program (peer support and referrals to care), Beams to Bridges (mental health education and support for community members), and Wellspring (a program for community building in the Black mental health ecosystem). Courtney is also the forthcoming Managing Director of Steel Smiling (Feb 2026). 

She holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. in Psychology from Chatham University. She previously served as Board Chair to Message Carriers of Pennsylvania- a Recovery Community Organization, and she currently serves as Board Secretary to Shiftworks Community + Public Art. She has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni for the Graduate Psychology Program at Chatham University (2025), an Inaugural Global Citizens Fellow with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh (2024), a Dignity and Respect Champion by UMPC (2021) and has achieved the Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry (2021), and the Women’s Health and Leadership Award from Chatham University (2015).