Episode Summary
In the inspiring Season 5 finale of Mental Health Trailblazers: Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up, host Indrias Kassaye sits down with Dr. Eugenia Flores Millender — a proud U.S. Army veteran, MFP/ANA alumna, mental health nurse scientist, psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner, and Principal Investigator of the Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association. She also serves as President-Elect of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
Episode Notes
Dr. Eugenia Flores Millender traces a path from a young nurse searching for her voice to a force reshaping psychiatric-mental health care. An Afro-Indigenous Latina from Panama, she brings lived experience to the front lines of innovation—championing culturally grounded care, trauma-informed healing, and data-driven solutions. Today, she is a national and international leader advancing mental-health equity, building systems that meet communities where they are, and setting a new standard for how mental health care is delivered.
She calls on nurses to claim their rightful role not only as part of the conversation, but as architects, leading AI and digital-health design and shaping the systems that will define mental-health care for generations, nationally and globally.
Authentic, hopeful, and filled with hard-earned wisdom, this conversation is a moving reflection on what it means to nurse the future — with courage, compassion, and purpose.
Learn more about Dr. Eugenia Flores Millender at https://emfp.org/about-us/national-advisory-committee/eugenia-millender
Nurses can earn free Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credits for listening to this episode. Full details will be announced at the end of the season.