Caribbean women healers project featured in Around The O

Caribbean women healers project featured in Around The O

Around The O has published an in-depth feature story, "Roots of Wellness," on the Caribbean Women Healers project—the brainchild of CSWS affiliates Ana-Maurine Lara, assistant professor of anthropology, and Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies.

The first stage of their Caribbean Women Healers Digital Humanities Project was completed on April 2020 with seed funding from CSWS and other units. The second stage is a Spanish version currently in progress.

Earlier this year, Lara and Reyes-Santos received Mellon funding of approximately $150,000 to undertake interviews with Black and Indigenous healers and traditional ecological knowledge keepers throughout the Pacific Northwest, and host them in a new section of the current website that already has an international and national following. The Mellon grant includes the women healer project among others constituting the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Climate and Racial Justice at UO.