On Saturday, May 9, 2009, over a dozen NYU Occupational Therapy students and several NYU OT Alumni joined the NYC team of OT's Walk with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) to fight the stigma of mental illness, and to raise money for educational and support programs of NYC NAMI (http://www.nami.org/).  Clad in their student designed purple NYU OT NAMI Walks T-shirts, the group left from the South Street Seaport and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and back again, joining the ranks of OT's from Beth Israel, St. Luke's, Columbia Presbyterian, St. Vincent's, SUNY Downstate, York College, LIU, Stony Brook, and Columbia U. MNYD supplied the banner leading the team of OT's Walk with NAMI. This year's walk netted over $300,000 which was raised by consumers, family, friends, medical professionals, faculty, and students.