Want to learn to be a better academic, clinical, or agency partner with community?

Working with an academic or clinical partner that needs to strengthen their partnership skills and capacity?

Need to strengthen your commitment to cultural humility and competence?

OFFERINGS

I am a consultant and guest speaker with a variety of offerings. I enjoy working with individuals, organizations and institutions to:

  1. Deepen understanding and commitments to cultural humility & cultural competence;

  2. Strengthen the possibility of health equity and justice solutions through authentic and effective community  academic partnerships and engagement;

  3. Strategize how to become a more effective community and institutional organizer for equity and justice; and

  4. Share research findings in ways that create access, opportunity, and utility for those who are most impacted by social problems. 

I am the descendent of farmers, Navy & Marine veterans, matriarch CEOs, corporate leaders, nurses, and early child educators. I am the daughter of Phil & Dean, sister of Alicia, and a girl mom to Ariana. Raised by a father from the city of Chicago and a mother from the rural country of Mississippi, I grew up in the flat lands of Central Ohio.

I earned a bachelor's in psychology and master's in physical therapy degree from Washington University - St. Louis and worked as a physical therapist for several years in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Guided by a family history of healthcare, public health nursing, activism and advocacy, I pursued a PhD in Health Behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health to discover a love and passion for health equity activism. 

My research interests include social determinants of racial health equity, community-based participatory research, and using antiracism, and intersectionality lenses to understand and address health inequities. I could not do research without authentic partnerships. I was a 10-year member of the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative in Greensboro, NC where I learned the structure of CBPR partnerships and the power of having a shared analysis of where problems come to to find effective solutions. I work with SpiritHouse, Inc. in Durham, NC, where I live. SpiritHouse taught me about the essence and power of community, connection, ritual, and healing. They regular teach me to be a better human. I am also a co-founder of the Alamance County Health Equity Collective, a community-based participatory research partnership created to address health equity by centering its work on the Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIP). 

Outside of my research partnerships, I am an organizer and trainer with the Racial Equity Institute, a member of the Black Pearls Society, Incorporated, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.  I hope to contribute to racial justice, social justice and liberation movements through teaching, research, and community and institutional organizing.

ABOUT STEPHANIE

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