Kelsey Armeni

Kelsey Armeni (she/her) is PhD student in Cultural Anthropology. Her work focuses broadly on women’s health and healing from violence. She has worked in psychedelic spaces, survivor advocacy, and public health. She works with Maya comadronas (midwives) to examine how women use pluralistic forms of care, such as integrating biomedical practices with holistic, alternative, and Indigenous forms of care, to resist and heal from the social-ecological landscape of violence against women’s bodies and territories in post-war Guatemala. She sees contemplative and artistic methodologies as critical to engage the public and communities in engaged research.