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Aline Gubrium is Associate Professor of Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her primary research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice; participatory digital, visual, and narrative research methodologies; and holistic and culture-centered approaches to health promotion. She uses participatory, digital, visual, and narrative methods to study the sexual and reproductive health knowledge and practices of marginalized women and youth, and has published extensively in the field of digital storytelling, sexual health and young parenting.

Aline is the co-author of Participatory Visual and Digital Methods (Left Coast Press, 2013), which explains participatory visual and digital methodologies for social research, health promotion and practice, and advocacy. In addition to leading the Ford Foundation-sponsored “Hear Our Voices” project, she is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design and test a culture-centered narrative approach for health promotion in collaboration with young Puerto Rican Latinas.

 

Elizabeth L. Krause is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research has centered on themes of population politics, especially low fertility and related critiques of rationality; cultural politics of race, gender and class, particularly as related to reproduction and, more recently, immigration; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology and value; global families; and ethnographic writing, including politics and practices of representation.

Betsy is the author of Unraveled: A Weaver’s Tale of Life Gone Modern (University of California Press, 2009) and A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy (Thomson-Wadsworth 2005). She has conducted fieldwork in Italy, Micronesia, Oregon, Arizona and Massachusetts. Her research has received support from the U.S. Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Council for European Studies, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

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Chris A. Barcelos is a doctoral candidate in Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Their research and teaching lies at the intersection of public health, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology. Chris's dissertation uses discursive, visual, and ethnographic approaches situated in a critical, feminist research methodology to understand how ways of knowing about teen pregnancy and parenting influence programming and policymaking.

 

Lizbeth Del Toro-Mejías is a Ph.D. student in Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has a Masters in Sciences in Epidemiology from the University of Puerto Rico, where she worked doing research related to Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection in men and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD). Her research interests focus on adolescent sexual health, health communication, sociocultural and health disparities, and Latino/Hispanic population.

 

Kasey Jernigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research is centered on participatory action research with indigenous communities for social justice and improved health outcomes, focusing on the historical and contemporary social determinants of health.
 
 
 
 
Iesha Ramos is an M.P.H. student in Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She works at Gandara Center as a community health worker. Her research focuses on reproductive justice, teen pregnancy, and sexuality education.

 

 

 

Miriam "Mim" Shafer is an M.P.H. student in community health education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has a background in participatory media making with local youth agencies including the Care Center. Her work focuses on reproductive justice, collaborative arts, social determinants of health and sexual health education.

 

 

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