Alina Liao

Alina Liao is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zenit, a radical wellness company with the mission to make wellness accessible to everyone. Alina’s passion comes from her experiences with mental health challenges and the stigma around mental health. She is building Zenit as a values-based company that puts the wellness of all stakeholders first.

Formerly, Alina was Co-founder & Chief Operations Officer of MindRight (currently MindRight Health), a nonprofit that provided mental health coaching to youth of color over text message. Alina received her MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University and her BA in English and Economics from Yale University. Alina has over a decade of experience building teams, programs, and organizations that have advanced wellness for customers, communities, and employees. She lives in Washington, DC. In her free time, Alina practices and teaches the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira at the nonprofit Capoeira DC. Alina is driven by a world where everyone has equal opportunity to be healthy and happy in their own skin.

Alina is no longer with MindRight. She is now Founder & CEO of Zenit