Four beliefs, held plainly and in the open.
We are the Kensora Alliance, a planned 501(c)(4) advocacy organization in formation. These are the positions we advocate for, stated as values, never as clinical or partisan claims.
The Kensora Alliance was founded alongside the Kensora app, born from lived experience with serious mental illness. We are organizationally and legally distinct from Kensora, the for-profit app, and from the planned Kensora Institute, a 501(c)(3) also in formation. We share their name and their mission, and we do our own work: advocacy for the ideas below.
Each position is stated in principle. We do not endorse or oppose any candidate, party, or official, and we do not make medical claims. Where a specific number or policy would be needed, we speak to the value instead.
Mental health is a human right
We believe that access to mental health support belongs to everyone. It should not be blocked by cost, by insurance status, by geography, or by whether a person has a particular diagnosis. A mind in need of care is reason enough for care to exist.
We advocate for a world where support is treated as a baseline, not a privilege. That means naming the barriers that shut people out, insisting that dignity does not depend on a person's means, and pressing for the idea that no one should be turned away from help because of who they are or where they live.
Everyone needs rest
We believe that sleep and attention are the foundation of a healthy mind. Rest is not a luxury to be earned or an inefficiency to be optimized away. It is a basic condition of health, and people deserve protection from technology built to take it from them.
We advocate for a culture and for products that respect a person's rest rather than compete for it. That means honoring the boundary of sleep, treating attention as something to protect rather than harvest, and standing for the simple idea that a well-rested person is not a resource to be mined.
Health technology must be honest and safe
We believe that when software touches a person in distress, safety comes before every other goal. Speed, engagement, growth, and profit all sit beneath the duty to do no harm. And such software must tell the truth about what it can and cannot do, in plain language, without overreaching claims dressed up as certainty.
We advocate for honesty and safety as non-negotiable standards for health technology. That means tools that are clear about their limits, that never pose as a substitute for human care, and that put a person's wellbeing ahead of any metric. The Alliance is not a crisis or emergency service. If you or someone you know is in crisis, in the US you can call or text 988, and people elsewhere should use their local emergency number.
Every life has dignity
We believe that the preservation, support, and dignity of human life comes before all else. This is the value beneath the other three. A person is never a problem to be managed or a number to be moved. Every life, in every state, has worth that does not have to be earned.
We advocate for this dignity to be the first consideration, not an afterthought. That means measuring every choice against whether it honors the person at the center of it, and holding to the conviction that supporting human life is the point, not a side effect.
How to read these positions
- Advocacy, not medicine. These are values we advocate for. Nothing here is a medical or clinical claim, and no product mentioned detects, predicts, prevents, diagnoses, or treats any condition.
- Issues, not parties. This is issue advocacy. We do not endorse or oppose any candidate, party, or elected official, and we are not a political party.
- In formation, stated honestly. The Alliance is a planned 501(c)(4) advocacy organization in formation. It is not yet a registered legal entity and does not hold tax-exempt status. If we ever invite support, contributions to a 501(c)(4) are not tax-deductible.
- Not a crisis service. The Alliance is not a crisis or emergency service. In the US, call or text 988. People elsewhere should use their local emergency number.
These are the ideas we're building toward.
If they sound like yours, we'd be glad to have you alongside us as this work takes shape.
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