Julia Quantz is a student in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. She has practiced as a surgical nurse for 17 years, 11 of those in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center.   A passionate advocate for community care, she was a founding member of the coalition to Save Allen Psych from closure; she remains committed to fostering mental health community resources and policies to make sure that every door is the right door to finding support. After graduation, she would like to work in the areas of somatic therapy, religious trauma, and substance use harm reduction. Follow her on Twitter at @juliaquantz.