Shea Winpigler grew up in Frederick, Maryland. It wasn’t until a few years ago that she had value both as the happy-go-lucky person people often saw her as and as the depressed person she tried to hide. Shea wanted to be part of This Is My Brave because the title so effortlessly embodied exactly what she has been feeling this year: courageous. “We can show our own community of everyday underdogs that we can and will be the hero in our own stories. Mental illness can make us feel strange, so realizing that this world is full of stories and struggles is unifying.”

Shea shares her story in the This Is My Brave Baltimore 2018 show.