Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty to Host 4th Annual Mental Health Summit
To usher in Mental Health Awareness Month, Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty is hosting its fourth annual Mental Health Summit on May 1 in Los Angeles.
This year’s summit will be a one-day event held in downtown L.A. that plans to welcome about 175 guests for interactive conversations around self-acceptance and mental health, including a closing fireside chat with British life coach and podcaster Jay Shetty, who is currently traveling the country with his “On Purpose Tour.”
For the 2024 event, which was based in New York, Gomez invited the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, to speak about the importance of community and how it can help combat the loneliness epidemic in the country.
To date, more than $20 million has been raised for the Rare Impact Fund, Rare Beauty’s nonprofit affiliate working to expand mental health awareness. After last year’s Summit, Gomez spoke candidly about her plans to continue to be an advocate for mental health initiatives, which she sees more than just a temporary passion project. “I want nothing more than to be able to be remembered by things like this more than anything else, because this is what makes me happy,” she said of her work in the field and through the RIF.
When asked about her hopes for the future of mental health discussion in the U.S., Gomez says, “Well, I think moments like this [summit] make me very hopeful, but I don’t think I’ll ever stop doing this. So I want to say on my part, I have great relationships, and I’m able to do as much as I can. I’m obviously not a political figure or anything, but I would do as much as I possibly could eventually. I probably would stop work and devote most of my time to this. That’ll [be] a while from now. But I don’t know, I have big hopes, but I don’t know what that looks like. I just want it to be something that people can feel and understand.”
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