Antiracist MD
Healing & Wellness, Policy & Advocacy, Technical Assistance
About
Antiracist MD is a mental health justice organization advancing Protective Care—an antiracist, abolition-aligned approach to mental health that centers dignity, consent, family preservation, and community safety rather than surveillance, punishment, or coercion.
The organization works at the intersection of mental health, racial justice, disability justice, and family integrity, challenging carceral practices embedded in psychiatry, child welfare, schools, and crisis response systems. Antiracist MD advances new standards of clinical care intended to protect people from harmful healthcare practices such as mandated reporting, diagnostic condemnation, forced treatment, and police-based crisis responses.
Its work spans direct clinical care, clinician education and training, public writing and scholarship, and legislative and policy advocacy, with a focus on protecting Black, Indigenous, disabled, neurodivergent, and gender-diverse children and families who are disproportionately subjected to surveillance and criminalization through mental health systems.
Antiracist MD is founded and led by psychiatrist and independent scholar Dr. Rupinder K. Legha, who is double board certified in child & adolescent psychiatry, as well as adult psychiatry. Dr. Legha is currently licensed in CA, CO, NM, NY, and TX.
Support
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Healing & Wellness
Antiracist MD provides direct, person-centered mental health care grounded in Protective Care, prioritizing dignity, consent, relational safety, and family preservation over coercive or punitive interventions.
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Policy & Advocacy
Antiracist MD engages in policy analysis, legislative education, and public advocacy to challenge harmful mental health practices embedded in healthcare, child welfare, education, and crisis response systems, and to advance standards that reduce surveillance, criminalization, and family separation.
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Technical Assistance
Antiracist MD offers consultation and technical guidance to clinicians, institutions, and organizations seeking to reduce harm in mental health care, including support around documentation practices, informed consent, crisis response, and navigating mandated systems in more protective ways. Antiracist MD also develops and delivers antiracist clinical education, training, and public scholarship aimed at transforming how mental health systems conceptualize distress, authority, risk, and care—moving from punishment-based models toward protective, justice-aligned practice.