Photovoice for Social Justice: Visual Representation in Action

About Jean M. BrenyShannon L. McMorrow

Jean M. Breny is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at Southern Connecticut State University New Haven CT. She received her PhD in Health Behavior/Health Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000) and her MPH in Community Health Education from San Jose State University (1994). She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health promotion practice. Her scholarship both domestically and globally aims to eliminate health disparities through community-based participatory action approaches that inform public health practice through an understanding of how social and cultural factors affect individual health behaviors. Shannon McMorrow is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs at Western Michigan University. Since 1998 she has worked in community-based public health as a practitioner and academic in multiple U.S. states Belize and Uganda. Her research and writing projects seek to illuminate important underemphasized social and cultural aspects of public health issues in order to eliminate health inequities. She prioritizes use of community-based participatory research approaches with a predominant focus on using photovoice. She has published and presented her photovoice work locally nationally and internationally in diverse and multidisciplinary venues such as the Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education the annual European International Studies Association Health Education & Behavior and the Journal of International Migration and Integration.