I'm Suzanne and I am the co-founder and Director of Global Initiatives of The Yellow Tulip Project. I love supporting youth to unleash their stories for social change. I knew little about mental illness until the summer day in 2015 when my daughter Julia told me that she was depressed. Soon after everything turned upside down with the back to back suicides of my daughter’s two best friends. I am passionate about community building and am fiercely dedicated to positive change and so that people know that there is help and hope out there. I believe in the simple and compelling message of the YTP and want it to spread to schools and communities far and wide so that people know that things will get better and that suicide should never be an option.