El Brush

El Brush is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Denver in Health and Behavioral Sciences. El’s research interests focus on biopsychosocial influences on chronic illness through embodied knowledge, meaning-making, and narrative construction. Using arts-based and qualitative methods, El’s dissertation adopts the intersectional lens of epistemic injustice to explore how those with religious trauma make sense of their bodies, health, and identities within lived experiences of autoimmune disease.