About

Carlos A. Larrauri, MSN, served on the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Board of Directors. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at 23 years of age, access to quality mental health care, community-based treatment, and early intervention afforded him the best opportunity for recovery. Mr. Larrauri is board-certified as a family nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and formerly lectured at the University of Miami and Miami Dade College.

Mr. Larrauri is currently pursuing a law degree at the University of Michigan Law School and a concurrent master in public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is a Zuckerman Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. He aspires to interface advocacy, health policy, and research to reduce health inequities for people living with mental illness. He is married to Dr. Kumar, and they have a beautiful Great Dane named Bruno.