About
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This page provides a brief bio statement for me (Dielle Lundberg), a health researcher in training and a multi-media artist. It also includes some photos and some information related to my positionality as an artist and researcher.
Bio Statement:
Dielle J. Lundberg, MPH (she/her and ze/hir) is a health researcher in training and a multi-media artist interested in the ways that art can foster connection, engagement, and health. Hir personal and professional mission is to dismantle structural ableism in public health and healthcare and "crip" health research, practice, and education from disabled, neurodivergent, and mad perspectives. As a disabled person in public health research, she views her role as meeting public health and health care stakeholders where they are at and inviting everyone on a journey to divest from ableism, reduce harm, and make progress towards equity.
Dielle is a white transfeminine person. She is disabled, mad, and neurodivergent. Her perspectives on ableism are informed by her experiences with physical disability (Long Covid and chronic pain), as a psychiatrized person (bipolar disorder and addiction), and as an autistic person with ADHD (adult diagnosis ADHD and adult discovery autist).
She completed the first year and a half of her studies as a PhD student in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health but decided to go on leave, an experience that provided her with the spark to launch her Mad at/in Health Education Essay Collection. During her time in Seattle, she also started a Graduate Certificate via the University of Washington Disability Studies Program.
She previously completed her MPH at Boston University School of Public Health where she is now a research fellow in The Uncounted Lab, a research initiative that seeks to document hidden death tolls using innovative methods and novel data sources and advance health policies that center population health and health equity. She has a long-standing, on-going collaboration with The Aftermath Learning Lab, a multi-institutional research and art lab and academic-community partnership whose mission is to reduce textile waste and other technology-related pollution.
Ze currently lives in Seattle, Washington on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples past and present including all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations. In her free time, Dielle can be found reading and hyper-focusing on things most people are not interested in, stimming to colorful lights, writing in the bath tub, venting to the neurodivergent group chat, avoiding talking out loud and daylight, and drinking 4 shots espresso.
Visit Dielle’s research areas page for her current areas of scholarship, and go to her essay about her guiding principles for health equity research and advocacy.
Photos:
These images can be re-used for purposes related to my scholarship.
This image is a close-up photo of Dielle Lundberg, a white disabled transfeminine person with wavy hair
This image is a photo of Dielle Lundberg — a white disabled transfeminine person wearing a grey dress — as she stands with a walking stick while presenting about her research on structural ableism as a determinant of health.
Positionality Supplement:
Dielle was born in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States (unceded lands of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota people) and grew up in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States (unceded lands of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota people) and later moved to Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States (unceded lands of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota people). Ze also spent formative periods of hir life living in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States (on the unceded lands of the Wampanoag and Massachusetts People), Pima County, Arizona, United States (on the unceded lands of the Tohono O’odham and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe), and Greater Accra, Ghana (on lands inhabited by the Ga people, Akan people, and several other ethnic groups).
She currently lives in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States (unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples including the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot Tribes).
Much of Dielle’s family hails from a rural community in Lincoln County, Minnesota, United States (unceded lands of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of the Dakota people) and other in Southern Minnesota, United States (unceded lands of the Dakota people). Dielle currently understands her ancestry as consisting mostly of Irish and Scandinavian people (from present day Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) who mostly settled in Southern Minnesota in the late 1800s through early 1900s.
Ze plans to expand this statement into a larger critical positionality essay in the year 2024 based on further research, dialogue, and learning as part of her development as a researcher. She will continue to update this page as her positionality (and understanding of it) continues to evolve.
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