Marion Scher

Marion Scher, award-winning journalist, author and media consultant, has written much about mental health over the last 28 years. She received a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship from the Carter Center in Atlanta in 2005 which enabled her to write Surfacing: people coping with depression and mental illness in 2021. As media consultant to SADAG, she is honoured to have been part of the movement to reach out through the South African media to enhance Rosalynn Carter's dream of...See more

Marion Scher, award-winning journalist, author and media consultant, has written much about mental health over the last 28 years. She received a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship from the Carter Center in Atlanta in 2005 which enabled her to write Surfacing: people coping with depression and mental illness in 2021. As media consultant to SADAG, she is honoured to have been part of the movement to reach out through the South African media to enhance Rosalynn Carter's dream of helping to break the stigma of mental health. See less