Katie Querna

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About Katie Querna

Description: Compassionate, affirming communicator with experience collaborating, educating, counseling and advocating with diverse populations. Innovating and skillfully risk taking; committed to creatively collaborating to work in partnership with individuals and communities for meaningful, embodied healing and through socially just systems change. Critical feminist researcher, educator, and movement specialist who brings dedication, enthusiasm, self-awareness, and sensitivity to her work. Summary of effectiveness: 20 years both developing curriculum and teaching students aged 6-86, many of whom have not been in a classroom in years, and embodied identities that have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education. Curriculum included sensitive topics such as race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, substance use, research methods and evaluation and social welfare history and policy. Developed interactive and innovative curriculum requiring self-reflection around students’ own biases and attitudes about sexuality, addiction, and welfare system usage. Developed and facilitated a courses on using contemplative pedagogies in anti-oppressive curriculum for grad students, medical residents, faculty, and staff. Other work has included creating a prevention campaign to prevent new HIV incidence and designing a comprehensive HIV service organization. Two years on the Washington State HIV Prevention Planning Group, and five years on the Washington State Materials Review Board collaborating with a diverse group of people, reviewing and suggesting revisions for prevention literature, and making policy recommendations in the aim of ameliorating new HIV incidence in Washington State. Nine years working both as an educator and clinician with marginalized individuals and communities at risk for HIV infection. Nine years researching with colleagues using critical, feminist and contemplative mixed methodologies examining the implications for sex and gender stereotypes and how those manifest in health impacts across the life course and intergenerationally.