04/02/2026
Meet MHTI Workshop Facilitator, Champagne Hughes! ✨
Champagne Hughes, MA, CPT (she/her) is an Associate MFT with the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s African American Alternatives Program, a performer with 15+ years across theater, DJing, and production, and a Bay Area nonprofit leader. She is the creator of Performance Identity Health (PIH) — a groundbreaking clinical framework that supports the mental health of performing artists by addressing identity, creative labor, and the emotional toll of performance, especially for BIPOC communities.
As a lead trainer for SFDPH’s Innovations Program, Champagne has equipped clinicians, case managers, and peer providers with trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and expressive arts-based tools that translate directly into practice. Her work consistently moves providers from theory to action.
Her career spans leadership roles at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, The Flight Deck in Oakland, and the San Jose NAACP Youth Leadership Academy. She has also served as faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Champagne is the host of After the Applause, a podcast on performer mental health, and is developing a series for Black and BIPOC clinicians navigating the field.
🎤 Artists are culture-keepers, storytellers, and architects of joy and resistance — and they deserve care that truly understands them.
Join us at the Mental Health at the Intersections Conference: From Joy to Justice!
📅 Thursday, May 21, 2026
⏰ 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 The California Endowment Center, Oakland
✨ After Gathering: 4–6 PM at Kinfolx
🔗 Learn more & register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-health-at-the-intersections-mhti-conference-from-joy-to-justice-tickets-1982296665689?aff=erelexpmlt
