Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine (she/her/hers) is an Arab disabled Spoken Word Poet, Registered Nurse, and University Fellow currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing with a focus on Disability Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Sabrina’s research focuses on the use of Spoken Word Poetry as an innovative form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate healthcare students, instructors, and practitioners about identity-based oppression and the consequential identity-based health inequities with a focus on ableism and disability justice. In undergrad, Sabrina double majored in Nursing and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University where she founded a spoken word poetry-hiphop literacy program for incarcerated male youth at a juvenile correctional facility and performed a TEDxTalk spoken word on societally-induced self-hatred of minorities, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. This summer Sabrina will be working with Dr. Denise Herd to examine how media exposure helps shape racial and political differences in perceptions of COVID-19.
