Katie Anne Querna

Querna's research focuses on gendered socialization and health impacts. Overarching themes in Querna's writing include gender norms, masculinity, adolescent and young adult development, mental health, aggression, and well-being. Querna's work also includes using contemplative pedagogical practices in higher education spaces to promote greater compassion and justice across all levels of the social ecology (interpersonal-policy). Querna currently serves on the City of Minneapolis' Transgender Equity Council and regularly consults with community health centers and service providers around sexual/reproductive health and violence prevention, queer/trans health care, adolescent development, and the ways in which institutionalized sexism and racism operate in clinical interactions with the aim of growing self-aware, equity-oriented health care providers. Querna is also a clinical social worker with professional experience working in HIV/AIDS. She is also an adaptive yoga teacher, primarily sharing her practice with people with intellectual disabilities.