Barbara Tsai Navarro, OTR/L, MSOT, MIM

CEO & Co Founder

Barbara is an Occupational Therapist (OT) specializing in Behavioral Health. While teaching her clients Mental Wellness skills for coping with and managing depression and anxiety, Barbara realized she was also using and benefiting from them to address the challenges of a meaningful life. She became passionate about educating people on these preventative strategies to improve mental wellness, live happier lives and thrive.

Having worked in the Tech industry for 15 years prior to becoming an OT, Barbara understands the intersection between skills that enable people to thrive in general and more specifically in the workplace. She has helped people to develop skills for managing stress and anxiety, healthy relationships and to improve their performance and independence at home, school and work.

Barbara has taught Mental Wellness skills and cognitive/executive functioning in private practice, at a traumatic brain injury program and at an award-winning mental health care facility in the Bay Area. She works with Silicon Valley clients and their families who are coping with depression, anxiety and substance dependency.

Bill Lennan

Co Founder

Raised on islands and diversely educated, Bill has always been focused on solving human as well as technical problems.

Over the span of his tech career, he has built products, teams, and solutions for mobile, recruiting, ecommerce, social media, and now education. 

He has helped companies ranging from Google and Walmart to hotels and restaurants.

Building high functioning teams has been fundamental to Bill’s success. 

His team successes are directly attributable to the skills taught in the HAERT™ Curriculum. 

Aditya Hariharan

Aditya is a senior at Homestead High School.

He really began to take interest in mental wellness as the pandemic began because of the benefits of it as well as his passion to help others. He joined HAERT in Summer 2020 as one of the first interns and has worked on backend development, module content, and social media outreach.

In the summer of 2021, he mainly focused on presenting the importance of prevention based mental wellness to middle school staff and working with the intern team to organize and enhance HAERT’s curriculum.

Marina Raynaud

My name is Marina Raynaud and I'm a Freshman at UC Santa Barbara.

I enjoy playing tennis, dancing, doing theatre, talking to her friends, learning new languages, and spending time with her family.

I am passionate about mental health and wellness because I have personally dealt with mental health issues and want to help other students and people understand what they're going through and help them cope with it.

I've also noticed that there are numerous students that have dealt with a large set of mental health problems, which makes me understand the significance of this type of education. This passion led me to create a petition for mental health change in my high school, and connect with the HAERT Program so we could find solutions to the mental health crisis together.

As an intern for the HAERT program, I have given feedback on curriculum, created a glossary for vocabulary words, researched prospective customer organizations, gathered statistics and feedback from students and teachers during Covid, and summarized modules to make them more concise. I have also contributed to making the curriculum more engaging and relatable to students, and to creating more interesting discussion questions and classroom activities. I love working at HAERT so that I can help people conquer their issues!

Shreyas Jena

Shreyas is a junior at Monta Vista High School and is a member of the mental health group for the Youth Public Policy Institution.

He thoroughly enjoys video games, walking his dog, and listening to music.

Outside of YPPI, he is an active part of the debate team and is an intern for the Boys and Girls Club. His love for community impact stems from his hopes to foster a healthy environment for all kids suffering from mental health issues.

Aditya Manikonda

Aditya graduated from Lynbrook High School.

He enjoys playing video games, going on long walks with his friends and cooking semi-edible food.

He has a strong passion for education and coding, which led him to help organize and conduct various coding classes for students across the globe. When he is not running at cross country/track and field meets or pulling all-nighters at hackathons, he usually volunteers at local libraries. His passion for volunteering ultimately inspired him to want to have a bigger impact on those around him, which led him to join Sunnyvale’s Youth Public Policy Institute, where he found his passion for mental wellness.

Miriam Law

School name: Monta Vista High School

What year are you graduating?: 2024

Why are you interested in Mental Health?: I want to explore the psychological changes adolescents and teenagers face due to differing environments and peers. Mental health is a prominent topic that is beginning to be prioritized within the rigor of high school, and I want to continue to encourage more discussion on this important subject.

What have you been working on while at HAERT?: I coordinate with the other members to brainstorm the logistics and content for future school events based on the HAERT curriculum, and help maintain the organization for creating social media posts and graphics.

What impact have you created or are you hoping to create?: I want to make mental health resources easily accessible to adolescents and teenagers—encouraging more to reach out for help—and mitigate taboo that prominently arise in Asian families around mental health topics.