Bioethics & Identity

This December, I was featured on the Medicus Podcast of the Stritch School of medicine at Loyola University. Episode Summary: Welcome to “Medical Myths,”  a new series on the Medicus podcast where we explore misinformation and common misunderstandings in the healthcare world, with the goal to help dispel common myths and promote education and awareness. […]

Central Consideration for this Article: How can a museum act as an institution that shapes knowledge and perceptions to create destigmatized narratives about peoples’ bodies? The featured guest for this Q&A is Florence Schechter. She started the project to build the Vagina Museum and is a science communicator by trade with a BSc in Biochemistry. She […]

Event Description As a member of the Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC (PPMW) Ambassador Program, I organized a free panel titled “I LIKE IT: A Conversation on Female Pleasure and Sexual Communication” on raising the consciousness of how women can more readily identify and communicate what is pleasurable for them in their own lives. […]

Central Consideration for this Article: How can storytelling of health experiences be an important way to promote connectedness, healing, and empowerment? The guest for this Q&A is Jenn Montooth. She is a public historian, storyteller, and writer based Washington, DC. She received her MA in Public History from UMBC, where she studied the Black Power Movement. She […]

  Central Considerations for this Article: What barriers do patients and their health care providers face in recognizing and treating vestibulodynia? How can an untreated illness that originates in the vestibule lead to a changing set of beliefs about the image one has of oneself? The featured guest for this Q&A is SexMed Advocate. She […]

Central Consideration for this Article: If people are engineered for perfection, what is the role of grit in developing ourselves, if characteristics and capabilities are believed to be pre-determined by genes and gene editing? This article was originally published on The Triple Helix’s online publication January 2017 at triplehelixblog.com We are at an unprecedented point […]

  Central Consideration for this Article: How can understanding the difference between knowledge and wisdom promote people to make more ethically sound decisions? Emily Hagen graduated from Cornell University in May 2017, with a degree in Human Development.  In college, she realized her passion for bioethics and conducted research on the topics of wisdom and […]