Kaaren M. Haldeman is a Post-doctoral Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University. She is a sociocultural anthropologist trained in medical anthropology and public health. She is a contributing author to “The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, & Gender” (Berger & Guidroz, 2009).

Dr. Haldeman’s research has focused on Black maternal health and the impacts of racism on health among African American women in North Carolina. She also worked at the US-Mexico border to understand binational collaboration in health care.

After completing her post-doctoral training in bioethics and genomic biobanking in the Department of Social Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill, she began a career in advocacy and community organizing around gun violence prevention. She helped build a national grassroots gun violence prevention organization and was the first to lead the North Carolina state chapter. She has extensive experience in civic engagement and policy and in 2018 ran for public office in her home city of Durham, NC. She co-chaired the City and State’s first Racial Equity Task Force, 2018-2020. In this role, she collaboratively authored recommendations to the City to create a more racially equitable Durham. She consults on inclusive workplace culture change and moving people from training in equity to meaningful action.

Dr. Haldeman holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley. She centers racial equity and antiracist praxis in her personal, academic, and advocacy lives.