Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD BSN RN (she/her) is an Arab disabled queer woman, health humanities nurse scientist, disability justice scholar-activist, and spoken word poet. Dr. Jamal-Eddine completed her PhD in Nursing with a certificate in Disability Ethics at University of Illinois Chicago where she explored the use of spoken word poetry as a form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Dr. Jamal-Eddine now serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher in UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development where she focuses on developing engaging anti-colonial pedagogic strategies to educate healthcare students and faculty about disability, ableism, and intersectional identity-based oppression as well as exploring the relationship between disability consciousness raising and psychosocial wellbeing. 

Dr. Jamal-Eddine is a 2024 Longmore Institute Emerge Disability Justice Fellow and previously served as a summer fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, Arizona State University’s residential National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, and University of Michigan’s Humanities Without Walls program. Dr. Jamal-Eddine’s long-term goal is to found an interdisciplinary, applied public-humanities healthcare equity center in a university that confronts healthcare inequity, violence, and oppression and promotes liberation, humanization, and belongingness for patients, students, and practitioners.