“Hope isn’t an emotion, you know? Hope is not optimism. Hope is a discipline… we have to practice it every single day.” —Mariame Kaba Tanmoy is a mental health lived experience expert and the creator of Sanity, an independent, reader-funded mental health storytelling platform based in India, serving a community spanning over 50 countries. Previously, he headed the edit desk at Fortune magazine’s Indian edition, where he won the Asian Journalism Prize conferred by IE Business School, Madrid. Later, as Associate Editor of Economic Times Prime, he helped build a pioneering subscription-only offering by the country’s largest business newspaper. Tanmoy is a past fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He serves on lived experience panels and committees across the world, and is a jury member for the Project SIREN Awards that recognises journalistic excellence on the topic of suicide prevention in India. He has coauthored a paper on suicide prevention in India published in The Lancet Psychiatry and has delivered lectures and workshops and collaborated with researchers across the world, including at the University of Amsterdam, Columbia University, and King’s College in London. Tanmoy is also a LinkedIn Top Voice in Social Impact and was the guest editor for the van Leer Foundation’s annual journal ‘Early Childhood Matters’ in 2023.