Dr. Richard Booth at TEDxURI 2022
Why I Don't Sit with My Back to the Door
Dr. Booth talks about how as a child, he was stereotyped, and the fear of failing was directed toward him over and over again by society. He decided this was not going to be his fate. Dr. Booth learned to surround himself by people that believed in and supported him. He determined his own fate. We need to stop thinking about hope as an end goal and realize that life has no finish line.
Dr. Richard Booth
Dr. Richard Booth is a clinician at Brown University and private practice. He serves on the executive board of the Village Green Charter School and is a core member of The Wellness Collaborative, an interdisciplinary collective working towards improving health and wellness in underserved communities. In private practice, he provides consultation, workshops, professional development, focused programming, and therapy. He was born in Jamaica, moving to inner-city Boston, where he spent his formative years. Dr. Booth was selected for a four-year MacArthur Foundation-funded Youth Mental Health Fellowship through Harvard University at the Judge Baker Children’s Center.