I am a behavioral health scientist, health educator and doctoral student; a reproductive health researcher and educator, with a particular focus on HIV, HPV, and HSV. Most of my work has been with adolescent girls and young adults, and I think they're great fun to work with - and challenging! Primarily, and fundamentally, though, I remain the gender studies student I became as a youngster, constantly looking through the lens of socialization and identification – for both men and women – and how these socialized identities play into our mental, physical, and emotional health.
Born and raised in San Francisco, I attended the University of Southern California, where I was one of two people (both women) who graduated with a degree in Gender Studies – out of a class of about 4,000. To say I found that to be emblematic of a bigger cultural problem would be an understatement. I’m now working on my dissertation at Columbia in Health and Behavior Studies, and I find myself being drawn back to the bigger picture of the social determinants of the way both women and girls, and men and boys act; how we treat and take care of ourselves, what makes us abandon what we intellectually know to be the choices that would keep us safest, healthiest, strongest; how we are conditioned. Media critic, health and education advocate, feminist, early explorer into the world of nutrition, and all around opinionator.
My blog: https://larkincallaghan.wordpress.com/
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