KATIE CAREAGA

Hardworking global education and health research program coordinator with over 20 years of distinguished glocal health and education experience working with first generation indigenous and Hispanic students. Experience working on communicable and non-communicable disease prevention initiatives. Extensive knowledge of interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration and exchange and dedication to experiential learning, diversity, equity, inclusion, addressing disparities through social justice initiatives, and effective appropriate technology integration to center marginalized voices. Confident and detailed-oriented with dedication to organization.

• Social & Behavioral Research, CITI Program
• J-1 Advising for Beginners Training, NAFSA

NAFSA Association of International Educators

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Books

2023. Decolonizing Perspectives in Global Health. Ed. Katherine Careaga. Vernon Press.

2004. Denman, C., de Zapien J., Cornejo E., Careaga K., and Dodendorf, D. et al. Working Beyond Borders: a manual for trans-border health projects. Hermosillo, El Colegio de Sonora.

Refereed Journal Articles

2014. Pelcastre-Villafuerte, B., M. Ruiz, S. Meneses, C. Amaya, M. Márquez, A. Taboada and K. Careaga. “Community-based health care for indigenous women in Mexico: a qualitative evaluation.” International Journal for Equity in Health 13(2).

2009. Careaga, K. "Women, Migration and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Migration Process of Altar, Sonora: Agency in the Midst of Multiple Vulnerabilities." Journal of the Southwest 51(4): 543-562.

Book Chapters

2023. Careaga, K., Gauthier, P., & Gómez Gutiérrez, R. From Denaturalisation to Indigenous Collaboration in Decolonising Undergraduate Global Health Curriculum and Teaching in North America. Decolonizing Perspectives in Global Health.

2014. "Status of Women." Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experiences, Ed. Anna Ochoa O’Leary. ABC-CLIO-Greenwood.

2014. "International Education." Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experiences, Ed. Anna Ochoa O’Leary. ABC-CLIO-Greenwood.

2013. Careaga, K. "Constructions of Women's Vulnerability to STDs During Migration: Methodological and Ethical Reflections" in Uncharted Terrain: New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice (Eds) O’Leary, Anna Ochoa; Deeds, Colin; and Whiteford, Scott.

June 2022, New Brunswick, NJ

NAFSA Region X Downstate Meeting

April 2022, Jersey City

New Jersey City University Latin American Studies Colloquium, Presentation: “Adolescent Vaccination Practices in Latin@ Households in Hudson County”

January 202, Virtual Presentation at event in Mumbai, India

K J Somaiya Institute of Management’s 2nd International Healthcare Management Conference: Navigating the New Normal with Focus on Healthcare Accessibility, Innovation and Sustainability, Presentation: “Achieving Vaccination of Young People by Leveraging Glocal Diversity”

November 2021, Baltimore

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Poster presentation: “Pandemic Adventures in Decolonizing Glocal Health Research and Teaching: Stories from a Participant Observer.”

August 2021, Montclair

Inaugural Build & Broaden Conference: Long-term Impacts of COVID-19 on Latino Communities in the Tri-State Area

March 2021, Online

Consortium of Universities for Global Health Annual Meeting, Organized panel “The Elephant in the Classroom: Colonialism and Neocolonialism as Key Social Determinants of Global Health Disparities” and presented “Decolonizing Undergraduate Global Health Curriculum and Teaching in North America”

March 2020, Havana, Cuba

Society for Medical Anthropology/Anthropos. "Teaching 'Global Health' in U.S.-Based Programs: Participant Observation and Textual Analysis of a Hegemonic Technoscientific Global Health Textbook."

May 2019, Washington D.C.

NAFSA Annual Conference & Expo

April 201, Madison, NJ

4th Annual One To World New Jersey Meeting

April 2019, Chicago

NAFSA Research Symposium

April 2018, Jersey City

Poster Presentation: “Mexicana Performances of Empowerment: The Role of the Cabrona in Confronting and Contesting Gendered Vulnerability During Migration“, New Jersey City University Inaugural Latin American Studies Colloquium

August 2014, Heredia, Costa Rica

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Annual Meeting (attended with Mexican colleague from El Colegio de Sonora)

April 2011, Washington D.C.

National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP) Annual Meeting. “Raw Talent: Admitting Students from Developing Countries” with Nancy Keteku

November 2010, Colima, Mexico

Asociación Mexicana para la Educación Internacional: Liderazgo en la Internacionalización, un compromiso de todos. “Más allá de Open Doors: Tendencias intra- e interregionales en la internacionalización y el intercambio entre México y los Estados Unidos de América” (“Going beyond Open Doors: intra- and inter-regional trends/tendencies in internationalization and exchange between Mexico and the United States”) with Rachel Josephs

March 2010, Merida, Mexico.

Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting: Vulnerabilities and Globalization. “International Higher Education Access through Couchsurfing: Appropriation of the Technology Among Two Student Groups.”

March 2009, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

XIII Reunión Internacional La Frontera: una nueva concepción cultural; Presentation: “Mujeres, fronteras, migración y ETS” (“Women, borders, migration and STDs”)

May 2007, Hermosillo, Mexico

International Congress on Migration and Childhood Migration; Presentation: “Construcciones de vulnerabilidad y agencia de las mujeres ante las enfermedades de transmisión sexual (ETS) en el proceso migratorio de Altar, Sonora, 2006-2007”

International Congress on Migration and Childhood Migration; Presentation: “Construcciones de vulnerabilidad y agencia de las mujeres ante las enfermedades de transmisión sexual (ETS) en el proceso migratorio de Altar, Sonora, 2006-2007”

Forthcoming