Laura S. Lorenz
Ph.D., M.Ed.
email: laura@lslorenz.com

Curriculum Vitae
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Laura Lorenz is a researcher and educator with international experience identifying and communicating research, management improvement, and program results for global audiences. Her research using visual and narrative analysis methods with brain injury survivors has received attention from researchers and practitioners at more than a dozen conferences in North America and Europe since 2006. She is currently exploring the perspectives of US veterans living with traumatic brain injury after returning from Iraq. A 2008 Brandeis PhD, Dr. Lorenz is Program Manager for the Executive Education Program at the Heller School, Brandeis University. She works with healthcare professionals (Physicians, Nurses, Management, etc) and organizations to develop tailored training programs to meet their management and leadership needs, provides training in health policy, the patient-provider relationship, empathy, fair process, and qualitative research methods. From 1997 to 2004, Dr. Lorenz developed continuing education materials for healthcare managers for Management Sciences for Health. From 1983 to 1997, Dr. Lorenz worked as a photojournalist, writer, and editor for UNICEF, World Food Programme, CARE, and the US Agency for International Development encouraging partnerships, project replication, and behavior change. Dr. Lorenz has pioneered participatory visual research in the US and South Africa to engage patients and communities and picture local problems and strengths. Dr. Lorenz has a Master of Education in Instructional Design and facilitates action learning, community development, organizational learning, and photovoice workshops. Her book “Seeing Brain Injury: Through the Eyes of Survivors” is under review for the new series “Disability in Society” from Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Introduction to Grounded Theory: A Social Constructionist Approach with Kathy Charmaz, 2006
Building Codes and Memoing with Paul Mihas (half-day workshop), June 2006
Consulting for Results, Management Sciences for Health (two-day workshop), April 2003
Supervision Basics, Management Sciences for Health (two-day workshop), March 2001
Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte (one-day course), April 2000
Basic Training, Management Sciences for Health (five-day workshop), February 1999
Prepress and Production, Skillpath (one-day workshop), January 1999
Nonfiction Writing Workshop, University of Vermont (two-week program), July 1996
Nonfiction Writing Workshop, University of Southern Maine (two-week program), July 1993
Jazz Vocal Workshops with Ronnie Wells, Silver Spring, Maryland, January 1990–May 1991
Fundamentals of Proofreading and Copyediting, George Washington University, Fall 1980
Teaching English as a Second Language, George Mason University, Spring 1980
 

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Responsible for working with healthcare organizations to develop continuing education training programs to meet skill and knowledge needs in health policy, management, and leadership. Facilitates sessions in health policy, improving patient-provider relationships, fair process, and the use of qualitative research methods in health policy research. Facilitates action learning projects.

Developed public health technical and training materials for national and international audiences of health care managers. Technical areas included cost and revenue analysis, continuous quality improvement, cultural competence, and public-private partnerships in health. Provided technical leadership in community mobilization efforts using images and text to improve health and combat HIV/AIDS and document and disseminate successful interventions.

Edited Africa Updates, a USAID Africa Bureau newsletter on private-sector development activities in Africa.

Based in Washington, DC, investigated the US Government training market for Addison-Wesley publications. Identified US government training programs and interviewed the officers in charge; developed contact list; analyzed markets; and suggested new publications to A-W editors.

As Field Editor in Washington, DC, investigated the US Government training market for Addison-Wesley publications. As Marketing Manager in Reading, MA, wrote marketing reports and developed in-house promotional materials for sales force. As Field Representative based in Pittsburgh, PA, held sales, marketing and editorial responsibilities for Addison-Wesley’s higher education textbooks for a territory of 50 colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Worked with CHPR staff to develop and implement a photovoice facilitator training and help plan a state-wide photovoice project intended to elicit consumer perspectives on long-term services and supports under the MA Systems Transformation Grant, funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) for the purpose of improving both service quality and outcomes.

Worked with BPHC staff to develop a photovoice project outline and provide a one-day photovoice introduction to community residents participating in a photovoice project to explore root causes of health disparities from the community’s perspective.

Helped identify literature to support a US Department of Defense and Veterans Administration effort to develop consensus guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury among military personnel serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Co-facilitated a 10-week photovoice project with brain injury survivors that culminated in an exhibit of 50 photographs and narratives grouped into 9 categories: The Journey, Lost Dreams, Chaos, Challenges, Strategies, My Advocacy Story, Comfort and Support, Acceptance, and Hope for the Future. The project’s outreach efforts are ongoing.

Teaching assistant in Leadership and Organizational Behavior with Dr. Jon Chilingerian. Graded papers and exams, lectured, developed the course web site, and provided emotional and other support to 91 students in two sections.

Provided guidance in program design, recruitment, and implementation to the facilitators of a photovoice project for young adult mental health consumers in Western, MA for a project sponsored by the MA Department of Mental Health.

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Helped to design and facilitate a photovoice training workshop for researchers and program managers planning to use photovoice as a needs assessment and evaluation tool in programs with mental health consumers, adolescents, families, and communities.

In collaboration with Girls Inc staff, developing a curriculum guide for a program Private Investigators, intended to improve critical thinking skills and increase interest in math and science among girls aged 10 to 14.

Developed an evaluation strategy for Brain Injury Association of Virginia (BIAV), to use the data BIAV has been collecting on brain injury incidence and outreach in Virginia since 1988 to understand program impact.

Wrote case scenarios for four issues of The Manager, a continuing education publication for managers of health programs in developing countries.

Wrote Curriculum Design Basics, the third book in the Girls Incorporated basic programming series, to motivate and assist 148 Girls Inc. affiliates in the US and Canada to bring locally developed curricula up to the national Girls Inc. curriculum standard.

Conceptualized and wrote the curriculum Photovoice: Girls’ Voices, Girls’ Vision, a 19-session instructional guide using photography as a community assessment and dialogue tool intended to improve girls’ critical thinking and communication skills, initiate community dialog on problems and resources, and expand girls’ visions of future educational and career possibilities.

Produced 60 Research Summaries of activities carried out under operations research and technical assistance projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Wrote articles for five issues of Alternatives, a regional newsletter for Asia on operations research and technical assistance.

Developed a booklet on World Food Programme’s “Indiamix” project to inform Indian central and state government officials, international donors, manufacturers, and others of the advantages of producing a blended supplementary food in India for the national Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS); edited WFP’s India Country Programme for submission to Rome.

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Edited and wrote a series of 11 case studies and overall analysis of nongovernmental organizations working with community-based organizations throughout India.

Edited the research report Food Security Scenario and Role of Supplementary Food Programs and produced a 15-page summary for policy makers.

Wrote seven feature stories on child agricultural labor, urban slum schools, street children, and urban youth for the Division of Information’s Features Service; took color and black-and-white photographs that visualized the stories.

Wrote article on Health on Wheels, a street children’s health program of Butterflies, an Indian NGO; took accompanying photographs.

Wrote 14 success stories on USAID’s activities in India in the areas of family planning, environment, enterprise, health, economic growth, food for development, and housing. Developed briefing materials for the Regional Housing and Urban Development Office on the need for better urban basic services in India. Produced a brochure on USAID/India’s Office of Environment, Energy, and Enterprise. Produced a brochure introducing the Integrated Family Planning Services Project to government and NGO staff in Uttar Pradesh.

Researched, wrote, and photographed an article on IESC volunteer executive in India working in health, food technology, and the environment.

Produced a brochure on the USAID-funded Plant Genetic Resources Project to inform Indian and US audiences of the project’s advantage to farmers, consumers, scientists, and food security.

Researched, wrote, and photographed an article on “true potato seed” technology in India.

Edited nine volumes of research abstracts in health, population, family planning, urban development, rural development, and women’s studies.

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Wrote 10 articles for the US Information Agency’s Topic magazine (for Africa) on grassroots development, training, non-traditional exports, economic development, Peace Corps volunteers, and health care in West and Central Africa.

Wrote seven articles on UNICEF activities in Guinea with refugees, health centers, urban slums, and women and girls; took accompanying photographs; wrote briefing documents for UNICEF/Guinea fund-raising campaigns in Europe.

Wrote five articles describing USAID mission activities in family planning, micro-credit, health, and appropriate technology for the USAID newsletter Front Lines; took photographs.

Managed production of three semiannual reports on the status of mission-wide activities. Edited existing text, making sure that it met USAID/W’s information needs and concerns.

Managed production of four semiannual reports on the status of mission-wide activities and use of funding. Edited various evaluation, project and research reports on agricultural, disaster relief, and other development activities for USAID/Peru and contracting agencies.

Managed production of a quarterly newsletter on the activities of USAID’s Regional Economic Development Office for West and Central Africa (REDSO/WCA); edited various evaluation and research documents.

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Author. Visual metaphors of living with brain injury: Visual metaphors and voice: Communicating lived experience with brain injury, Invited Paper, Special Issue of Visual Studies on Visual Research Methods and Issues of Voice, (2010) Guest Editors Wendy Luttrell and Richard Chalfen.

Author. Discovering a New Identity after Brain Injury, Sociology of Health and Illness, Submitted for review February 2009, revise and resubmit by November 2009.

Co-author with Kolb, B. (2008). Involving the public through participatory visual research methods. Health Expectations, Special Issue on public participation in health, (2009) Guest Editors Jonathan Tritter and Karen Lutfey, Accepted.

Author. Seeing brain injury: Through the eyes of survivors. Disability in Society Series, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, under review for 2010 publication date.

Author. Book Review: Picturing pity: Pitfalls and pleasures in cross-cultural communication. Image and word in a North Cameroon mission, Visual Studies, Volume 24, Number 1, April 2009 , pp. 86-87(2).

Author. (2008). Making visible the invisible: Understanding lived experience with acquired brain injury through visual illness narratives. Doctoral Dissertation, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

Author. (2006). Girls Inc. Private Investigators. Lowell, MA and New York, NY: Girls Incorporated.

Author/editor. (2003, 2002, 2001, 2000). The provider’s guide to quality and culture. Boston: Management Sciences for Health, Electronic Resources Center. (http://erc.msh.org).

Author. (2003). Curriculum design basics. New York: Girls Incorporated.

Author. (2003). Photovoice: Girls’ vision, girls’ voices: A community activism project for girls aged 12-15. Lowell, MA and New York, NY: Girls Incorporated.

Author. (2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997). Case studies. The Manager, vols. 6-12. Boston: Management Sciences for Health.

Author. (2003 in draft). Girls use photography to show they are resources for themselves, their families, and their communities. CYD Journal.

Editor. (2002). A guide to planning local government health services: The matching grant program in the Philippines. Boston: Management Sciences for Health.

Co-editor. (2002). Management strategies for improving health and family planning services: A compendium of The Manager Series, vols. V-IX. Boston: Management Sciences for Health.

Author. (2002). Young people use cameras to speak out for change in South Africa. Global HealthLinks, July–August.

Photographer. (2002). The Youth Academy photovoice project. Bisho, South Africa: EQUITY Project.

Associate Editor. (1999, 1998, 1997). The Manager, vols. 6-8. Boston: Management Sciences for Health.

Editor. (1999). CQI experiences in Latin America. Boston: Management Sciences for Health.

Editor. (1998). CORE: A tool for cost and revenue analysis: User’s guide. Boston: Management Sciences for Health.

Editor. (1997). Operations research summaries: Operations research and technical assistance projects. New York: Population Council.

Author. (1997). Indiamix: Development of a low-cost blended food. New Delhi: World Food Programme, March.

Author. (1997). Transition to India: New horizons community service relocation handbook. New Delhi: New Horizons.

Editor. (1996). Research summaries: Asia Near East operations research and technical assistance project. New Delhi: Population Council.

Editor. (1996 ). Food security scenario and role of supplementary feeding programs. New Delhi: CARE.

Editor. (1996). Case studies: Community based organizations in India. New Delhi: Urban Institute.

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Author. (1996). In India, girls labourers quit work for school. UNICEF Feature No. 00168.IND. New York: UNICEF Division of Information, April.

Author. (1996). School under the tamarind tree. UNICEF Feature. New York: UNICEF Division of Information, April.

Writer/Editor. (1995). USAID/India: Office of Environment, Energy, and Enterprise. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, August.

Writer/Editor. (1995, 1994). Alternatives, issues 1–5.

Author/Photographer. (1995). IESC health and environmental advisers lay groundwork for future growth. Front Lines, April.

Author/Photographer. (1995). Sugarcane power. SPAN, vol. XXVI, no. 1. New Delhi: US Information Service, January.

Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID program empowers Indian women to improve family health. USAID Developments, vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer).

Author/Photographer. (1995). Counting the tiger’s stripes: In India, USAID undertakes the largest demographic health survey ever. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID food program changes lives in rural India. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID PL–480 Title II food reaches rural Indian mothers and children with#F7EFD6 care and education. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID grant enables manufacture of measles vaccine in India. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). American support to India’s housing finance increases the system’s resources and sustainability. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Regional Housing and Urban Development Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). Increasing contraceptive use in northern India. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). Co-generated power in India: How sweet it is. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). Indo–US common agenda for the environment: Environmental cooperation benefits both countries. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). Saving biodiversity treasures: USAID expands India’s capacity to store and exchange plant genetic resources. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID project demonstrates India’s agribusiness potential. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). New dried flower business creates new Indian jobs and exports. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID projects help revolutionize India’s agribusiness sector: Loan funding and technical assistance empower local entrepreneurs. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). True potato seed: Changing the way India grows its food. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

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Author/Photographer. (1995). USAID support for India’s economic reforms gets message to the grassroots. New Delhi: US Agency for International Development, Program Office.

Author/Photographer. (1995). IESC in India: Moving with the times. New London, CT:  International Executive Service Corps.

Author/Photographer. (1994). New spud technology may double India’s yield. Front Lines. Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development, December.

Photographer. (1994). My name is today. Children in the News, vol. II, no. 1. New Delhi: Butterflies, Summer.

Author/Photographer. (1994). The potato revolution. SPAN, vol. XXV, no. 6 (June).

Author/Photographer. (1994). Blossoming into “butterflies” in India. UNICEF Feature No. 00103.IND. New York: UNICEF Division of Information, June.

Author/Photographer. (1994). The plant genetics resources project, 1988–1997. New Delhi: Winrock International.

Author. (1993). Appropriate technology in Senegal. Topic, no. 204.

Author. (1993). Ghana’s future in exports. Topic, no. 204.

Author/Photographer. (1993). Prevention is still the best medicine: Condom social marketing campaign changes attitudes and actions in Guinea. Front Lines, September.

Author/Photographer. (1993). Guinea project sparks entrepreneurial spirit and pride. Front Lines. Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development, May.

Author. (1993). Gambian memories. Topic, no. 203.

Author. (1993). In Senegal: Education for life. Topic, no. 202.

Author/Photographer. (1992). In Senegal, grassroots efforts illustrate development in action. Front Lines, November.

Author/Photographer. (1992). Senegal sponsors governance seminar. Front Lines, July.

Author. (1992). Guinea’s changing business climate. Topic, no. 201.

Author. (1992). Private sector growth in Guinea Bissau. Topic, no. 201.

Author/Photographer. (1992). Guinean health center reaches out. Conakry, Guinea: UNICEF.

Author/Photographer. (1992). Lack of wells, latrines plagues refugee relief efforts in Guinea. Conakry, Guinea: UNICEF.

Author. (1991). Fatumata: A Guinean girl. Conakry, Guinea: UNICEF.

Writer/Editor. (1991, 1990). Africa Updates, issues 1–5.

Author. (1991). North Shaba rural development project. Topic.

Author. (1990). Agency encourages investment in Africa. Front Lines, August.

Author. (1990). A strategy for diversification: Vanilla from Uganda. Topic, no. 196.

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Brain Injury X-Posed: The Survivor’s View. Poster Presentation, 2009 ACRM-ASNR Joint Educational Conference, Building the Evidence Base for Rehabilitation Interventions: From Research to Clinical Care, October 7 - 11, 2009, Denver, Colorado.

Generating Patient Accounts of Quality Using Photography and Voice, Visual Presentation, 2009 Academy of Management Meeting, August 7-11, Chicago, Illinois (with Jon Chilingerian).

A Way into Empathy: Using Visual and narrative Methods to See Life from a Patient’s Perspective. Oral Presentation, 6th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, July 8-11, 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Experience and practice with visual illness narratives: Examples from brain injury survivors. Invited Lecture, Visual Studies in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, July 7, 2009. Contact Dr. Bettina Kolb

Panelist, Health Care Reform and Patient-Centered Care: Using Qualitative and Mixed Methods to Understand and Engage Patients and the Public, Oral Presentation, 26th Annual Meeting, Academy Health, Chicago, Illinois, June 28-30, 2009.

Generating Patient Accounts of Quality using Photography & Voice, Poster Presentation, Organization Category. 26th Annual Meeting, Academy Health, Chicago, Illinois, June 28-30, 2009 (with Jon Chilingerian).

Panelist, Human Subjects and Ethics, Participatory Action Research Symposium, Brandeis University, April 2-3, 2009.

Reaching multiple audiences: Process and product in participatory visual methods with brain injury survivors. Midwest Sociology Society, April 2009.

Brain injury x-posed: Seeing life with brain injury through survivor’s eyes. Lunch and Learn presentation for BrainLine, www.brainline.org, February 4, 2009.

Photovoice: Speaking with pictures. Guest talk for Sociology 315: Seeing Social Life, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Professor Susan Bell, December 4, 2008.

A Way into Empathy: Seeing life from a brain injury patient’s perspective. Oral presentation with R.R. Sanders. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network, December 3, 2008.

Photovoice: Speaking with pictures. Guest lecture for Visual Literacy Course, University of Massachusetts Boston, Professor Domenic Screnci, November 18, 2008.

Living with brain injury: Through the eyes of a survivor. Advanced Seminar in “Emergent Seeing and Knowing: Mapping Practices of Participatory Visual Methods,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, November 13-15, 2008.

A Way into Empathy: Seeing Life from a Brain Injury Patient's Perspective, Oral Presentation: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network, Boston, MA, December 3, 2008.

Living with brain injury: Through the eyes of a survivor. Advanced Seminar in “Emergent Seeing and Knowing: Mapping Practices of Participatory Visual Methods,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, November 13-15, 2008.

Brain Injury X-posed: TBI and our Vets, Panel presentation, the Newton Free Library and the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (click here for more info) November 3rd 2008

Living with brain injury: The survivor’s view. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, ACRM-ASNR Joint Educational Conference, Toronto, Ontario Canada, October 15-19, 2008

Discovering a new identity after brain injury: A visual illness narrative. Oral paper. European Health Psychology Society, Bath, England, September 9-12, 2008

Re-establishing a sense of coherence: A typology of brain injury survivor stories. Poster, European Health Psychology Society, Bath, England, September 9-12, 2008

Understanding lived experience with brain injury through a survivor’s visual illness narrative. Roundtable. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, MA July 31-August 2

Subjectivities of narrative and interaction: Learning from writing about acquired brain injury. Presented at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, May 14-17, 2008.

Living with brain injury: The survivor’s view. Presented at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, May 14-17, 2008.

Using Fair Process to Cross the Quality and Health Care Chasm: Eliciting the Perspective of Brain Injury Survivors. Brandeis Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Social Change and Transformation, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, April 5, 2008

Crossing the Quality and Health Care Chasm for Rehabilitation from Brain Injury: Applying Fair Process to Policy Development. Poster. 135th Annual Meeting and Exposition, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, November 3-7, 2007.

X-posing Lived Experience with Brain Injury: A Photovoice Project with Long-term Survivors. Poster. 135th Annual Meeting and Exposition, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, November 3-7, 2007.

Using fair process to cross the quality and health care chasm: Eliciting the perspective of brain injury survivors. Paper presentation, The Society for the Study of Social Problems, 57^th Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 10-12, 2007.

Making visible the invisible: Using Photovoice to elicit the perspective of brain injury survivors. Poster presentation, Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Beverly, MA, July 18-21, 2007

Using narrative analysis methods to gain insight into living with brain injury. Oral paper, Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Beverly, MA, July 18-21, 2007

Making visible the invisible: Using action research to understand living with brain injury. Oral and poster presentation, Annual Research Meeting 2007, Academy Health, Orlando, FL, June 3-5, 2007.

Living with traumatic brain injury: A narrative analysis of a survivor’s photographs and interview. Poster Presentation, Annual Research Meeting 2007, Academy Health, Orlando, FL, June 3-5, 2007.

Using fair process to cross the quality and healthcare chasm: Eliciting the perspective of traumatic brain injury survivors. 13th Annual NRSA Trainees Research Conference, US Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Orlando, FL  June 2, 2007.

Making visible the invisible: Using photography and narrative to understand living with brain injury. Oral presentation, Rehabilitation Hospital of The Pacific, Honolulu, HI, May 18, 2007.

Making visible the invisible: Using participatory action research to understand living with brain injury. Works in Progress, 13^th Annual Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, University of St. Thomas, School of Education, Minneapolis, MN, April 20-21, 2007.

X-Posing lived experience with brain injury: A Photovoice project with long-term survivors, Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury State of the Science 2007, Pentagon City, VA, April 12-13, 2007 .

Making visible the invisible: Using Photovoice to understand living with brain injury. Poster Presentation, 26^th Annual Conference, Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, Marlborough, MA, March 22, 2007.

Living with traumatic brain injury: A narrative analysis of a survivor’s photographs and interview, the State-of-the-Science Symposium on Post-Acute Rehabilitation: Setting a Research Agenda and Developing an Evidence Base for Practice and Public Policy, Arlington, VA, February 12-13, 2007.

Living with traumatic brain injury: Narrative analysis of a survivor’s perspective, Colloquium on Qualitative Research in Health, Boston, MA, December 13, 2006

Living with traumatic brain injury: A narrative analysis of a survivor's photographs and interview, American Public Health Association, 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Poster Presentation, Boston, MA, November 6, 2006

Living without connections: Using narrative analysis of photographs and interview text to understand living with traumatic brain injury and facilitators and barriers to recovery from the patient’s perspective, European Sociological Association, Mid-term Conference, Cardiff, Wales, September 4, 2006

Leadership development: Using photography to develop activism and critical thinking skills in youth. Panel Presentation, International Visual Literacy Association Annual Conference, Newport, RI, October 2003

Giving youth a voice in health: Photovoice in a South African township. Panel Presentation, American Public Health, 130th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 2002

Girls Inc. Photovoice. Panel Presentation, Family Re-union 11, Nashville, TN, October 2002

Involving South African youth in community health. Poster Presentation, Global Health Council Annual Conference, Washington, DC, May 2002

2008 David Strauss, PhD Memorial Award, American Congress of Rehabilitation, Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group, for poster presentation entitled “Living with brain injury: The survivor’s view.”

Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Health Division Graduate Student Paper Award, 2008

Commencement speaker representing the Ph.D. class, Brandeis University, The Fifty-seventh Commencement Exercises, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, May 18, 2008

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Doctoral Training Fellowship in Health Services Research and Policy Analysis, 2007-2008

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Doctoral Training Fellowship in Health Services Research and Policy Analysis, 2007-2008

Dissertation Grant, Heller Alumni Fund, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 2006-2007

Spencer Educational Research Foundation mini-grant, Brandeis University, 2005-2006

Anne Ralen Brown Fellowship, The Heller School, Brandeis University, 2004-2006

Family Strengthening Grant, Annie E. Casey Foundation, for Photovoice: Girls’ Vision; Girls’ Voices, 2002-2003

Career Development Grant, Association of American University Women, 2000–2001

Graduate Student Assembly, UMASS Boston, April 2000
 

Academy Health
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)
American Public Health Association (APHA)
American Sociology Society (ASA)
Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (BIA-MA)
Center for Qualitative Inquiry
European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
Forum for Qualitative Research in Health at Boston University
International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP)
International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA)
North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
 

Peer reviewer for the journals Medical Care, Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research Education, and Action, and Visual Studies.

Member, Community Based Partnerships Working Group, Building Bridges to Support Military and Veteran Families Collaborative Working Group, Defense Centers for Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury.

Member, Health Policy, Treatment Theory, and Community-based Treatment sub-groups of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)

English (native) reading and speaking
French: (2+) reading and speaking
Spanish: (1+) reading, (2+) speaking

Abidjan, Ivory Coast: 1981–1983
Lima, Peru: 1983-1987
La Paz, Bolivia: 1987–1989
Conakry, Guinea: 1991–1993
New Delhi, India: 1993–1997