Asante Haughton
Asante Haughton is a Jamaican-born Toronto-based human rights and mental health advocate and the co-founder of Reach Out Response Network. Family life. Haughton was born Jamaica before moving to Toronto with mother where he was a gifted student. He has two brothers. Haughton speaks openly about his depression and anxiety which developed from his experiences as a 10th-grade student when his mother tried to take her own life, but ended up instead hospitalized for months. He used poetry and rap as an outlet for his emotions and excelled at basketball before getting help from  his family doctor. Career and activism. Haughton is the manager of peer support training at Stella's Place youth mental health organization in Toronto and a mental health consultant for Vice. He co-founded Reach Out Response Network with Rachel Bromberg in 2020 and contracted COVID-19 the same year. He does research with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Music career. Haughton raps and has collaborated with Toronto rapper Derek Christoff.