Healthy Dissent: Urban Ecologies and the Art of Relational Politics
A Public Lecture by Michael Montoya
Introduced by Camara Jones, Morehouse School of Medicine
Monday, January 25, 3pm
Student Center Theater
Georgia Tech

Sponsored by the Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine, with the support of GT-FIRE

Michael J. Montoya is a professor of anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies, public health and nursing science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality. Montoya is also the director of the Community Knowledge Project, which is an experimental space for communities of all kinds to learn and engage in action together. Montoya's work seeks to characterize the ways community knowledge can make academic questions more relevant and research more robust. Equally important, he believes that making community is a birthright and that health and wellbeing require it.