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Krystle Canare, BS (she/her/hers)

Deputy Director
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Krystle Canare (she/her) is the Deputy Director of the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA), a nonprofit organization that promotes the mental health and well-being of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities nationwide. Krystle is a national health equity leader with extensive leadership and experience in the federal government and nonprofit sector, previously serving as a consultant for the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, ambassador for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders during the Obama Administration, steering committee member for the National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health, staff at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and National Alliance on Mental Illness, and former Vice Chair of the Asian Mental Health Collective.

Currently, Krystle serves as Co-Chair for the National Council for Asian Pacific Americans' Health Committee, Co-Chair for SAMHSA's Anti-Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Hate Work Group, Mental Health Advisor for the Filipino Young Leaders Program, and is the co-founder of Tayo Trails, where she travels the country by RV to connect with Filipino American historical sites and communities.

Raised in the Washington D.C metropolitan area, Krystle graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.S in Neurobiology & Physiology. Krystle attributes her passion for mental health, policy making, and community building to the university’s Filipino American History & Biography course, Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy Office, and the Filipino Cultural Association.

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