Anticipated Graduation Date:  June 2018Katherine Querna

Professional and Research Interests: Katherine's nine years of  clinical, policy, and research experience has focused on gender/sexual minorities and health disparities. Her research focuses on understanding personal and cultural conceptions of gender/sexuality with the aim of improving health via practice and policy interventions, specifically violence prevention and sexual health interventions with adolescent and emerging adult men. Katherine’s dissertation is community based participatory research with a qualitative exploration of sexuality identity development with non-monosexual emerging adults (18-25 years) men.  She is interested in teaching substantive courses in contemplative pedagogies in social work and other anti-oppression education and human sexuality, gender, and development.    

Email:  kquerna@uw.edu