Using Multimedia Diaries to Capture Stories of Resilience during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Using Multimedia Diaries to Capture Stories of Resilience during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Dr. Kristie Seelman, Ph.D, MSW
Assistant Professor & BSW Program Director,
School of Social Work, Georgia State University

Kristie’s research focuses on improving social welfare services, healthcare, and education settings for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) people, developing LGBTQ+-affirming policies, and addressing health disparities affecting LGBTQ+ people across the life course. As part of a Public Interest Technology Universities Network Fellowship, she is collaborating with a colleague at Georgia Institute of Technology on a study of resilience among LGBTQIA+ adults in the Southeast during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also working on projects about trans healthcare access, critical theories in relation to social work, and digital technologies and binary gender. She has published in journals such asSocial Work, Journal of Youth & Adolescence,The Gerontologist, Social Work in Health Care,andTransgender Health. Her research has been cited in multiple amici curiae briefs for federal court cases related to transgender students and received national media attention from outlets such as The Washington Post, Slate, The Academic Minute (NPR), and Newsweek.

In 2015, Kristie received an NIH Loan Repayment Program contract from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (2015-2017) for research related to transgender health and sexual minority aging. She received her PhD and MSW from the University of Denver and has a BA in Psychology from Allegheny College.