Dr Breaux Torres is a mental health expert and licensed clinical and forensic psychologist in the US and a passionate advocate for racial justice and anti oppression.
Dr Breaux Torres has worked and trained within various correctional and state hospital systems, working with both juveniles and adults, providing and overseeing clinical services as well as conducting forensic evaluations. Within those settings she championed strengths based and empowerment approaches blended with political education and social justice, working with clients to create environments more conducive to meaningful change. In addition to clinical work she has assisted in programme evaluation, modification, and implementation, as well as policy evaluation and staff training targeted at addressing antiracism and systemic inequities within prisons and adjacent systems.
As for other professional endeavors, in service to the American Psychology-Law Society, Dr Breaux Torres has served on the Early Career Professional, Practice and Broadening Representation, Inclusion, Diversity, and Global Equity committees. Currently, she is a trustee of Race on the Agenda, one of the leading antiracist organisations in the UK and works within the UK mental health charity sector. Dr Breaux Torres is also a founding member of the Black Mental Health and Wellbeing Alliance, a group who has created and launched the Black Mental Health Manifesto in the UK, a demand for change coproduced with Black people with lived experience of mental health problems.
