What I wish my people had known
The Psychiatric Green Book:
A Guide for Black Folks
Written by Kelechi Ubozoh and Yolo Akili Robinson, What I Wish My People Had Known – The Psychiatric Green Book: A Guide for Black Folks honors Victor Hugo Green’s historic Jim Crow-era travel guide. While the original Negro Motorist Green Book helped Black travelers navigate physical roads safely, this guide helps Black families safely navigate modern psychiatric care systems. Focused on California and Georgia laws, it offers practical tools for legal rights, advocacy, and crisis support. This resource was co-created alongside a powerful coalition of Black system survivors, disabled individuals, healers, policy experts, psychiatrists, feminists, abolitionists, and allies. You can purchase your guide here.
We’ve been too patient
Stories from Radical Mental Health
In 2019, Kelechi published her anthology with L.D. Green, We’ve Been Too Patient, an anthology amplifying marginalized voices of lived experience who have endured psychiatric mistreatment, now taught at New York University, Boston University, Cal State East Bay and available as an audiobook.
The Carceral State, Forensic Psychology, and Black Resistance
“Let them not be Forgotten”
Kelechi Ubozoh’s chapter, “Even Through the Chains, I See Our Freedom,” is featured in the new anthology The Carceral State, Forensic Psychology, and Black Resistance: “Let Them Not Be Forgotten,” edited by Evan Auguste. Combining poetry, narrative, and research, the chapter explores community-defined evidence practices to combat scientific racism and offers the California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) as a model for community-led healing over traditional, racialized systems. Read more at Springer.
The New york Times
Home Sweet Funeral Home
Kelechi Ubozoh was the first undergraduate journalist to be published in the New York Times. Check out her 2006 article
here.
When We Exhale
.Kelechi Ubozoh’s poetry is featured in When We Exhale: An Anthology of Black Women Rooted in Ancestral Medicine, a 140-page collection edited by Alie Jones and published by Black Freighter Press. The anthology explores profound themes of rest, grief, and intimacy through ancestral medicine. She recently joined a lineup of powerful writers to perform pieces from the book at a packed, deeply moving live event hosted by Jeneé Darden in downtown San Francisco. The live audience was incredibly moved—you can listen to the full performance and interview o n The Sights + Sounds Show with Jeneé Darden on KALW Media.
Kelechi is also published in the following works:
Self-Care in Social Work
A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout
Kelechi Ubozoh’s contribution to the 2nd edition of Self-Care in Social Work ( NASW Press) moves far beyond clichéd self-help fixes. Her piece explores the deep “de-programming” required to unlearn performance-based coping and reclaim personal intuition. Addressing the unique exhaustion of being cast as “the strong Black woman,” she shares vital strategies for processing secondary trauma and burnout. By shifting self-care from an individual chore to a practice of firm boundaries, she offers healing-centered guidance to help professionals protect their emotional safety.
Essential truths
The Bay Area in Color
Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color is a robust and timely anthology featuring 130 BIPOC writers, poets and artists reflecting on recent and current Bay Area realities.
Endangered species, enduring values
An Anthology of San Francisco Writers and Artists of Color
Endangered Species, Enduring Values, an Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color from Pease Press.
Trauma tresses & truth
Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives
Kelechi is featured in Trauma, Tresses & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives Through Chicago Press.
digital futures in mind
Reflecting on Technological Experiments in Mental Health & Crisis Support
Digital Futures in Mind: Reflecting on Technological Experiments in Mental Health & Crisis Support By: Jonah Bossewitch, Lydia X.Z. Brown, Piers Gooding, Leah Harris, James Horton, Simon Katteri, Keris Myrick, Kelechi Ubozoh & Alberto Vasquez