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2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture
Gabriela Nagy, UWM assistant professor of psychology, will present the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk is “Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity.”
This talk challenges the pervasive deficit lens through which Latino/a immigrants are often viewed, focusing instead on their remarkable resilience and the protective factors that safeguard their mental and physical health despite chronic stressors, trauma, and systemic oppression. It offers insights into how Latino/a cultural values and practices can inform healthier, more resilient ways of living for all people in the United States.
About the speaker:
Gabriela Nagy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at UWM. She serves as the principal investigator for the EQUITY Research Group. She is a current research fellow with the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies. She is also an associate editor on the Journal of Health Service Psychology editorial board and a board member of NourishMKE Community Food Centers.
She has published extensively in her field with recent articles appearing in Psychology Services, Behaviour Research and Therapy, JAMA Health Forum, Journal of Affective Disorders, and other journals.
Before her appointment in 2022 to the UWM Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Nagy served as assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and assistant clinical professor in the Duke University School of Nursing. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from UWM in 2017.
Dr. Gabriela Nagy’s research focuses on reducing the mental health care inequities experienced by minoritized communities. In this space, she has worked most extensively with immigrants and refugees from Latin America. Dr. Nagy’s lab is focused on understanding social and structural factors contributing to health inequities; developing and testing psychosocial interventions to support the health of minority communities; and dissemination and implementation of strategies that hold promise for reducing health inequities. She utilizes community-engaged research methods, mixed-methods, and human-centered design approaches.
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