Cecilia McGough is a New York City-based mental health activist, nonprofit executive director, co-author, public speaker, consultant, and former radio astronomer. McGough is autistic and also happens to have schizophrenia, but they do not let their diagnoses define them. McGough is the founder and executive director of the global nonprofit Students With Psychosis. Students With Psychosis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers student leaders and advocates worldwide through community building and collaboration. McGough is a former Global Shaper and task force member of the World Economic Forum. She finds it essential to connect with advocates across various diagnoses. She was a Lightbulb ambassador, served as a 2020/2022 conference advisor for Healthevoices, and is on the finance committee for the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale in 2023 and upcoming 2024. McGough collaborates with industry leads, mental health researchers, and clinicians; for example, McGough was a 2020-2021 think tank participant organized by One Mind to focus on early screening for psychosis in youth. She is an UNLEASH talent who traveled to Denmark in August of 2017 to be an active voice to attain the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure people with psychosis are represented. McGough was a keynote speaker for the 2022 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society in Florence, Italy. At 17, McGough co-discovered PSR J1930-1852 with the widest known orbit around another neutron star. This discovery led to opportunities such as being published as a co-author in the Astrophysical Journal, helping represent the United States in the International Space Olympics in Russia, and being a Virginia Aerospace Science And Technology Scholar through the NASA Langley Research Center. McGough’s story as a radio astronomer through the Pulsar Science Collaboratory can be seen in the documentary Little Green Men. McGough’s story has been viewed over 35 million times across multiple platforms. It has been featured on CBS This Morning, Glamour UK, Fortune, The Boston Globe, Women’s Health Magazine, Forbes, PBS, USA Today College, Healthline, Barcroft TV, Anthony Padilla, Daily Mail, The Indian Express, MTV University, Parade, TEDx, SBSK, WGBH, Mental Health America, Psychology Today, Astronomy Now, etc.