
Public Health phd student
Artist, Storyteller, & Researcher
Arts in Health Scholar and Practitioner
Arts in Health Scholar and Practitioner
adrienne maree brown
I am a PhD student in the Department of Health Promotion & Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research and practice is grounded in the use of arts for public health. An applied theatre artist, storyteller, writer, and percussionist, I believe in the healing and transformative power of the arts. I use many creative modalities to examine and address the human condition, riddled with issues like racism, white supremacy, sexism, ableism, & ageism.
Through an intersectional, anti-racist, social determinants lens, I focus on the health of Black women and children, as well as other historically excluded communities including Native, Latine, youth and Queer populations. I have found particular interest in pleasure-centered sexual/reproductive health, reproductive justice, violence prevention, chronic disease management/prevention, mental health and juvenile justice and education reform.
My scholarship is transdisciplinary and community-centered. I utilize critical narrative intervention (CNI), participatory narrative analysis, participatory action research, and Theatre of the Oppressed tools to tackle research questions and practice community-accountability.
I love to connect, partner, grow, & learn
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Email: saharradixon@umass.edu
Saharra Dixon (she/her)
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