Trained as a journalist, Antoine contributed to several publications and was the assistant editor with The Network Journal. He graduated from Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York, and in 2008 he earned awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists. He produced the documentary “You Are Not Alone” and facilitates discussion forums on depression in Black gay men. In July 2012, he presented a poster exhibition “Examining Depression and HIV in Black gay men” at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC. With DBGM, Antoine has facilitated discussion fora, accompanying documentary screenings in communities around the country and internationally, and at various national conferences. In collaboration with other non-profit organizations, he planned and hosted in October 2014 the first-ever LGBT Peoples of Color Mental Health Summit at Rutgers University, Newark Campus, and in October 2015, the first-ever one-day LGBT Peoples of Color Mental Health Conference at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel in Union Square, NYC, which has grown into an annual two-day conference, in 2016 was held at the Alexander Hamilton US Customs House Building, in 2017 at the Stewart Hotel in 2017, and 2018, in collaboration with the Metropolitan College of New York. He has already begun planning for the In My Mind Conference’s fifth anniversary in 2019. Antoine lectures on cultural competency for LGBTQ populations at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, and provides workshops on “Race and Intergenerational Trauma as Contexts and Consideration for mental health treatment for Black and people of color”, “Cultural Competency for LGBTQ+ peoples of color”, and “Mental Health and HIV”. He is a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor, sponsored by NYC DOHMH and provided by the National Council for Behavioral Health. Antoine has a chapter in the soon to be published (February 2019)”Headcase” an anthology of queer mental health, by Oxford University Press. He is a member of the NY State Office of Mental Health Multicultural Advisory Council and Co-Chair of the LGBTQ Task Force Committee for the Consumer Advisory Board of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He is in the process of completing a book in which Black gay men share stories of their struggles with depression. |