Vincent Atchity

Vincent Atchity joined Mental Health Colorado in 2019. Vincent previously served as Executive Director of The Equitas Project, a national initiative to disentangle mental health and criminal justice, which has now become part of Mental Health Colorado. Vincent is an advocate for public health and health equity, a population health management strategist, and a builder of communications bridges connecting communities and community partners with better health outcomes and more efficiently managed costs.

Vincent’s work has included care management, cost control, outcomes improvement, workforce development, data integration, partnership network development and support, project design, education, and fundraising. Vincent has served on the Colorado Governor’s Mental Health Holds Task Force and the Colorado Opioid Epidemic Symposia Steering Committee, and currently serves on the Colorado Public Defender Commission, Governor’s Strategic Planning Task Force to Increase Behavioral Health Access in the state, the Denver District Attorney Advisory Council on Mental Health, the Colorado School of Public Health Behavioral Health Initiative Advisory Board, as well as on the board of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Vincent has held positions with the North Colorado Health Alliance, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Fordham University, and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in comparative literature at the University of Southern California, and his undergraduate degree in classics at Georgetown University.

Education

• BA Georgetown University
• Polytechnic School
• M.A., Ph.D. University of Southern California

Companies

• President and CEO Mental Health Colorado (2019)
• Executive Director The Equitas Project (2015 — 2019)
• Chief Operating Officer North Colorado Health Alliance (2012 — 2015)
• CREATE Health Director and Senior Instructor University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (2010 — 2012)
• Assistant Dean UC Berkeley School of Public Health (2007 — 2011)
• Lecturer in Community Health and Human Development UC Berkeley School of Public Health (2009 — 2011)
• Assistant Dean Fordham College at Lincoln Center (2004 — 2007)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Fordham University (2004 — 2007)
• Postdoctoral Fellow in English Fordham University (2002 — 2004)