Jane Holschuh received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley. She was a predoctoral and postdoctoral National Institute of Mental Health Fellow at UC, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her practice and research interests in serious mental illness focus on consumers' perspectives, stigma, social networks and homelessness. Holschuh was awarded an NIMH grant to study the social networks, social support, and service utilization patterns of adults with schizophrenia. She was the principal investigator on two major survey research projects that interviewed homeless adults in Humboldt County, California and Pima County, Arizona. Currently, she is a clinical associate professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University and Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Work at Humboldt State University. She teaches courses in behavioral health, clinical practice, and research at the Tucson component. Her co-edited book " First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery," narratives on the subjective experiences of mental illness and recovery, was published in 2012 (Wiley & Sons).