On Sunday, October 11, I will be leading a workshop for the second annual STaRT@Rice Program (October 7-11), which aims to provide “an innovative program that will provide a panoramic view of the research process and offer professionalization opportunities” to participants.

My project will be focusing on the power of storytelling to ask ourselves: How do stories shape our biological understanding illness and health? How are the biological stories we tell ourselves about health tied to the social, political, economic, and historical conditions that shape our lives? How might we find ways to recover and repair ourselves and our community, and better address structural inequalities that shape health, by incorporating storytelling into our healing practices?