Emily
Ryan,
MA
Director, The Commons
The University of Kansas
Emily Ryan is the Director of The Commons at the University of Kansas. At KU, she is a Staff Associate for the Center for Service Learning; a member of the Research Communications Council; a student mentor through Jayhawk Connections; and a member of the Community Engagement Consortium. She is a market gardener and food justice advocate, and the Vice-Chair/Treasurer for the Paper Plains Literary Festival. Her work centers on building connections and developing opportunities for collaborative research across disciplines and beyond the academy. She is invested in expanding access to food education and breaking down barriers to local food production.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Achieving health equity demands a fundamental reexamination of the human experience. The humanities and arts offer a useful lens that reveals and informs blind spots in our understanding of health and health equity across diverse populations. The Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative (HHARC) at The University of Kansas (KU) is an innovative model connecting educational institutions with practice settings in co-created academic-community partnerships. Launched in the midst of the pandemic, HHARC creates connections and leverages affinities within health, wellness, and health equity…