Christina Bruni is a spokesperson and expert blogger for SchizophreniaConnection.com, where she writes weekly posts on hot topics, such as what to do if you’re newly diagnosed, living well in recovery, confronting stigma and breaking news in the field.

As a contributing editor to Schizophrenia Digest, she writes the Living Life column, and has written the Recovering Together Q & A. In her time with this quarterly, circulation more than doubled, from 20K to 50K. For New York City Voices, the mental health advocacy journal, she wrote the Bruni in the City column, and has contributed numerous articles on topics such as online dating, employment, spirituality, and fitness and health.

Christina lectures throughout the year to wide audiences that include peers, family members and providers, as well as college students and the general public. In 2004, NAMI-Staten Island honored her as one of three volunteers of the year, for her “courageous” accomplishments and leadership in improving the lives of people living with mental illness and their families.

She was a featured performer at the Italian American Writers’ Association (IAWA) monthly reading at Cornelia Street Café, in Manhattan’s West Village, where she read from her memoir.

Christina’s poetry was included in Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent, the anthology of Canadian and American Italian writers.

Left of the Dial, her memoir, will be published shortly.