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Andrea D. Kelley, PhD, MSW
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Assistant professor, medical sociologist, former social worker and sex educator. Birder and novice bird photographer. They/them
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Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2026 Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting's Mini-Conference on Health Professions Education! Check out www.essnet.org for conference information and the submission portal. Submission deadline is October 15, 2025. We hope you can join us!
CFP Blue text on white background: Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting Washington, DC, March 5-8, 2026 CFP for Mini-Conference: Health Professions Education Theme: Transforming and Repairing Health Professions Education In a national context where U.S. healthcare practice, research, education, and programming face increased constraints due to conservative political ideology and neoliberal fiscal policy, health practitioners, educators, and researchers find new areas of struggle and resistance. How are healthcare professionals surviving the current political context regarding cuts to HIV prevention, legislative attacks to gender affirming healthcare, anti-vaccine rhetoric, and ICE presence? What are impacts of the transformation of the American institution of healthcare, including the incorporation of AI, private equity, and other macro-level changes on how healthcare professionals go about their daily work, understand their professional lives, and plan their forms of resistance? How can researchers support the spillover effects of U.S. policies into international contexts and interrelated struggles? Papers of Interest: We are interested in papers with empirical foci on how health professionals conceptualize and experience constraints and struggles, engage in organized or informal acts of resistance, transform their approaches utilizing social science and humanities, and navigate constrained professional contexts. In addition to welcoming traditional research presentations, we are also very interested in pedagogy presentations about how scholars engage in transformation and repair in the classroom, how researchers navigate a constrained research environment, and how practitioners engage in world-making amidst interlocking struggles. Submission Instructions: For conference information and submission portal, visit www.essnet.org (also linked in comments). ESS abstract submission deadline is October 15, 2025.
September 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Here is one of my favorite Superb Owl photos, a male Snowy Owl morning golden hour photo I took last winter.
Large owl, almost entirely white, sitting on a wooden post, looking over shoulder into the direction of the light. Sky behind the owl is blue with purple/pink clouds
February 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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This is what I wore to axe throwing this week: my watercolor Eagles crucial catch hat, kelly green Saquon Barkley jersey, and new Saquon reverse hurdle sticker on my axe. And I threw better than I’ve thrown in quite a while. GO BIRDS 🦅🦅
February 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I am very excited to be giving this talk for the Sex Ed for Everyone series on Thursday, April 10 at the Salus Center in Lansing, MI! Free and open to the public 😁
Event flyer, white text on red background, photo of protestors across middle holding signs that say, “no more lies” and “economic justice.” Text above photo reads: Sex Ed For Everyone Presents: Allyship is Messy with Dr. Andrea Kelley, Assistant Professor, Lyman Briggs College Text below photo reads: Join us as we discuss an intersectional approach to allyship. What is allyship and how can we practice it? What do we want from allies and how does that make allyship complicated? Text on bottom left corner: The Salus Center, Thursday, April 10, 6pm
January 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM