Medicinal Media chronicles mental health challenges and solutions.

Medicinal Media brings in Jada Pinkett-Smith and Adriene Mishler to board

Jada Pinkett-Smith and Adriene Mishler have joined Medicinal Media as board members to elevate mental health awareness month.

Medicinal Media is a nonprofit media-for-mental-health organization, that was founded a year ago. The company’s online tool and resource center for mental health is a “tonic for the doom-scrolled soul” in a time when isolation, anxiety, and mental health issues are at an all-time high.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.