Post-Doctoral Associate
University of Florida
Melanie Sonsteng-Person is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the College of Education at the University of Florida. Melanie is a social justice scholar focusing on identifying the institutional conditions that produce and maintain violence and trauma throughout K-12 schools, higher education, and social work. Her work bridges participatory action research with mixed methods to identify systemic causes of disparities and inform equity-oriented policies and practices. Her research and teaching are informed by her post-MSW work as a Middle School Teacher in Brooklyn and Certified Trauma Practitioner in Detroit. Collectively, her practice experience highlights how conceptualizations and subsequent treatment of trauma can impact youth and families. This experience, combined with her current research findings, influences her overarching professional goal to transform the community and institutional conditions that manufacture racially disproportionate academic and mental health outcomes within K-12 and higher education.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM