Kelsey Armeni

(BA Naropa University, 2015) Kelsey's research focuses on violence against women's bodies within maternal health care in post genocide Guatemala. She is interested in community engaged, applied, and decolonial methodologies. Her undergraduate research focused on facilitators of psychedelic states of consciousness to understand how psychedelics serve as a catalyst for healing. Before coming to CU, Kelsey was doing research with people who use drugs at the People, Place, and Health Collective through Brown University, and interning for Cultural Survival, an NGO dedicated to advancing Indigenous Peoples' rights and cultures worldwide. Kelsey's advisor is Donna Goldstein.