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 Entrevista Narrativa Clínica Etnográfica (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
Pós-doutorada
A Dra. Laura Sinko é enfermeira de saúde mental e enfermeira examinadora de agressões sexuais por treino clínico. Ela recebeu seu PhD da Universidade de Michigan e atualmente é bolsista da Universidade da Pensilvânia. Os interesses de pesquisa do Dr. Sinko envolvem cura e recuperação após a violência de gênero e compreensão das influências socioculturais desse processo. A sua área específica de foco é a violência sexual. Ela tem uma paixão por metodologias de pesquisa visual e estratégias criativas de disseminação para preencher a lacuna entre ciência, prática e a comunidade.
Courtney Julia Burns, BSE
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.