Dr Ramona Beltrán
Dr. Beltran is an Associate Director in the Graduate School of Social Work and Director of Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality at the University of Denver. She is a mixed race Xicana of Yaqui and Mexica descent and dancer/activist/scholar. Her scholarship is committed to interrupting legacies of historical trauma that affect Indigenous communities. She focuses on disrupting the problem-focused approach to understanding health and well-being that is profuse in mainstream research. Beltrán does this by centering culture, resilience, resistance, healing and arts-based and storytelling methods in collaborative knowledge production with and for Indigenous communities.