Meet the Advisory Council: Cee Carver

Cee Carver is the peer recovery department director at a large state hospital in the pacific northwest. Cee has labored discreetly as a carceral abolitionist while holding a supervisory position within a carceral clinical environment for the last seven years. Prior to working within the state system, Cee worked in a peer run organization for five years, starting as a peer specialist and leaving as a division director. Cee is also a person impacted by the lived experience of forced long-term inpatient psychiatric confinement.

Cee’s primary objective is to validate the experiences and safeguard the human rights of incarcerated people while providing guidance to an eleven-person peer team and maintaining fidelity to the long-standing peer values of Choice and Voice. Cee’s dislikes include received wisdom cloaked as evidence-based practices and paternalistic power structures.

Cee enjoys taking in live music, comedy shows, spending time with family and friends, fishing, camping, and backwoods adventuring throughout Free Cascadia.