2023 Researcher of the Year Award

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Received the 2023 Portland State University Research of the Year Award for the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health! Not really sure how/why etc., but it’s cool and I’ll take it ha. Some #Stats and #Stazas from my 2022-2023 work to this point…

• 15 peer-reviewed papers, poems, and book chapters. All first-authored.

• A book—Representation, Re-Presentation, and Resistance: Participatory Geographies of Place, Health, and Embodiment.

• 5 conference talks/presentations

• 14 invited talks, keynotes, plenaries, and podcasts

• Finalist for the 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review

• Long List for the 2022 New Voices Poetry Contest, Frontier Poetry

• 1 pathbreaking, first-ever standing peer-reviewed poetry section in a public health journal!

• 1 dope @ss poetry and public health event, Stats & Stanzas!

• 0 proposals submitted for funding for reductionist, positivist, apolitical, settler-colonial, extractivist, racial capitalist fxck shxt that does wonders for the White gaze/CVs but absolutely nothing to disrupt the status quo, challenge power, and advance health justice and liberation. I’m not saying, I’m just sayin’. #APeoplesSocialEpi

“fxck livin’ basic, I’m takin’ risks /
fxck what they sayin’, I’m sayin’ this”

— Nipsey Hussle, "Hussle & Motivate"

I don’t do this shxt for nothin…