Amy Panton is a PhD candidate at Emmanuel College in Toronto. She is a Mad theologian who has become involved in practical theological research, as she wants to contribute to change. She is an out-survivor of the psychiatric system and is exploring the intersections between mental distress and spirituality in her dissertation work on self-injury. Amy is also the co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability, the co-host of the Mad and Crip Theology Podcast, and the founder of the Mad and Crip Theology Press, which she launched in December 2021.