Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Dr. December Maxwell is an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health. Her qualitative research uses community-developed and derived decolonizing approaches to better understand the complex interactions of historic and generational trauma, indigenous motherhood, and perinatal mental health disparities among American Indian/Native American and indigenous mothers. While at the University of Texas at Arlington, she worked closely with the National Institute of Transportation and Communities (NITC) to better understand the intersections of transportation access and women’s bodily autonomy and received funding from NITC to investigate the complexities of land allocation, forced relocation, transportation access and perinatal mental health among American Indians/Native Americans. Additionally, she has studied the generational experience of becoming a mother using story inquiry, a qualitative method appropriate for storytelling, among indigenous mothers and aims to collaboratively create community-derived culturally-driven interventions addressing maternal mental health disparities among indigenous mothers. Her recent projects include a study of the impacts of COVID-19 on the transition of becoming a mother and amplification of maternal mental health disparities and a community-based evaluation of functionality and improvement of tribal court systems for survivors of intimate partner violence within the United Keetoowah Band tribe.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Friday, November 11, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM