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Know Your Madisonian: Julianne Carbin works to increase acceptance of people with mental illnesses

Looking back on her childhood, Julianne Carbin now recognizes that some of the people she was closest to probably struggled with mental illness but,”We never talked about it.” Now Carbin, 32, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Wisconsin, works to erase the shame and misunderstanding and advocate for funding and treatment for people with mental illnesses and their families.