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Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
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“How do arts-based communication channels serve as a “translational bridge” for providing communities the access to good science and researchers the access to important local knowledge? A community-based participatory health communication approach to health literacy highlights the role that art and performance can play in intervention and offers a culturally based model for replication in other marginalized communities."
Olga Ildriss Davis
Olga Davis Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University (ASU) and co-Principal Investigator of the Community engagement/Community Outreach Core of the SIRC NIH-P20 Centre of Excellence grant for the Study of Health disparities in the Southwest. Her research agenda is in the domain of critical cultural and performance studies in the disciplinary area of human communication. Her work explores the performative struggle of identity within the African Diaspora, the Black body as a site of racialized and sexualized oppression, and the function of memory as ritualized healing among survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Central to the work is the study of narrative—how narrative empowers, creates, and fosters cultural awareness to provide a space for social change.
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