Lisa Martin Interview

Description

Lisa Martin, PhD, RN, PHN, AHN-BC, FAAN

Lisa Martin is an enrolled member of the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, tenured at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, and has extensive experience teaching in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs.

Lisa has worked as a public health nurse in the Twin Cities, and as a clinical educator, nursing supervisor, and project manager with several interdisciplinary public health programs. She has experience building research projects with reservation and urban-based American Indian communities. Her research has focused on American Indian youth living with type 2 diabetes, overweight and obesity in low-income, urban, rural, and American Indian communities.

Currently, Lisa leads Indigenization learning groups for public and private university nursing programs in the Twin Cities. Indigenization is one way to address the under-representation of nurses from diverse groups in the nursing profession, especially American Indian/Alaskan Native/Indigenous nurses, and provides an opportunity to discuss health equity and the social determinants of health at a time where there is a national call for renewed understanding of structural racism and its presence in nursing education.

Participants

• Jocelyn Gorlin
  
• Lisa Martin
  
• St. Kate's StoryCorps Project II
  

Interview By

• St. Kate's StoryCorps Project II