Meet Dr. Miriam G. Valdovinos

Miriam G. Valdovinos, PhD

Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Social Work

Dr. Miriam Valdovinos’ scholarship addresses the health effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) experiences in Latinx families. A primary goal of her research agenda is to develop multi-pronged (individual, family and community-based) culturally responsive intervention programs that address the effects of IPV on Latinx communities, while considering systemic constraints such as institutional racism and poverty. As a Xicana Indigenous social welfare scholar, she centers testimonio narrative methodologies, culture, healing and resistance. She joined the DU faculty in 2019.

Valdovinos is also fostering relationships with colleagues in Puebla, Mexico and has participated in international collaborations to further explore experiences of Latinx immigrants whom live familial lives across nation-state borders to better develop interventions that address these relationships in transnational spaces. In the next five years, Valdovinos wants her research to amplify the voices of marginalized women who are survivors of IPV to better understand interpersonal violence in diverse communities and to highlight intersections of structures of oppression and social support systems.

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