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Denise Saint Arnault, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, MiStory Founder and Current Director
Dr. Saint Arnault’s research centers on gender, cultural and social influences on mental health, trauma recovery, and help seeking. She develops and tests her Cultural Determinants of Help Seeking theory in research with women in over a dozen countires. She uses mixed methods to discover how distress experiences, culturally based meanings (such as stigma and sense of coherence), social support, and social negativity impact the help seeking journey. Her Intervista Narrativa Clinica Etnografica (CENI) provides a transcultural method that allows people to explore the cultural and social influences in their search for health, and also promotes self-awareness and active engagement in the  help-seeking process. She also examines cultural factors that influence meaning, expectation, and expression of depression. She is a core faculty in the Michigan Mixed Method Research and Scholarship Program.

Laura Sinko, PhD, RN, CCTS-I

Borsista post-dottorato
La dott.ssa Laura Sinko è un'infermiera di salute mentale e un'esaminatrice di violenza sessuale con formazione clinica. Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca presso la University of Michigan ed è attualmente una National Clinician Scholar presso la University of Pennsylvania. Gli interessi di ricerca della dott.ssa Sinko riguardano la guarigione e il recupero dopo la violenza di genere e la comprensione delle influenze socio-culturali di tale processo. La sua area specifica di interesse è la violenza sessuale. Ha una passione per le metodologie di ricerca visiva e le strategie di divulgazione creativa per colmare il divario tra scienza, pratica e comunità.

Courtney Julia Burns, BSE

Università del Michigan

Medical Student
Ms. Burns is a medical student at the University of Michigan, and is pursuing a career in academic medicine that incorporates principles of social justice and feminism into clinical care. She is interested in using research to provide voices to survivors of violence and improve the efficacy of their medical care.