Nkiru Nnawulezi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 227201 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nkiru Nnawulezi |
| PRENOMES | Nkiru |
| SOBRENOME | Nnawulezi |
| ASSINATURA | NNAWULEZI N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7316-6480 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Weight-Based Health Care Discrimination and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Black Sexual and Gender Minoritized Assigned Female at Birth Adults in the United States
Introduction: Black sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) people assigned female at birth (AFAB) face notable barriers to cervical cancer screening, including racism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism. Although weight-based discrimination is prevalent in the United States and may compound other forms of discrimination, no study has examined the association between weight-based discrimination in health care settings and Pap test use among Black SGM AFA…
Separate and Cumulative Impacts of Trauma-Informed Practices and a Housing Intervention on the Safety, Housing Stability and Mental Health of Domestic Violence Survivors Over Two Years
Purpose Trauma-informed practices (TIP) with intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors contributes to short-term improvements in their mental health. However, less is known about TIP’s long-term value for mental health and whether TIP’s value extends to other life domains, such as housing. Focused on the outcomes of housing stability, mental health, and violence experiences, this longitudinal study examined the contributions of TIP and Domestic V…
When Policy Is Not Enough
Policies throughout the U.S. respond to the well-documented relationship between housing instability and intimate partner violence (IPV), but in practice survivors’ needs often remain unmet. In this community-based participatory study, an interdisciplinary research team interviewed 41 survivors seeking emergency housing assistance at the sole public gateway for homeless families in Washington, D.C. Only four survivors received immediate assistanc…
Women's Formal Help-Seeking Before and After Their Abusive Partner Initiates Relationship Violence Treatment
Intimate partner violence survivors ( N = 122) reported on formal help-seeking before and after their male partners enrolled in a Relationship Violence Intervention Program (RVIP). At baseline, only 20% of survivors had ever received domestic abuse (DA) counseling. DA counseling was more common among survivors with more extensive partner abuse exposures, and for black women residing in suburban versus urban communities. New help-seeking was assoc…
Survivors’ Perspectives on Relationship Violence Intervention Programs
Reflecting and rejuvenating our work, together
Community psychology has long valued reflexive praxis as a critical part advancing our research and action. In this Virtual Special Issue (VSI), we, a group of community psychologists and gender‐based violence (GBV) researchers at many different points in our careers, reflected on GBV publications that have appeared in AJCP. We examine the ways in which community psychology broadly and articles in AJCP more specifically have conceptualized GBV as…
Identifying and Responding to the Complex Needs of Domestic Violence Housing Practitioners at the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The social, financial, and emotional repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic has left many organizations that support survivors of intimate partner violence questioning how to maintain core services while addressing compounding individual, organizational, and public health issues. Stay-at-home orders and other COVID-19 mitigation strategies have resulted in reduced shelter availability and increased intimate partner violence rates. Coupled with th…
Ambivalent White Racial Consciousness
Ambivalent white racial consciousness describes a push towards awareness about racial privilege and a simultaneous pull back from this knowledge into a more comfortable stance of denial. Twenty-nine White community members and undergraduate students participated in focus group discussions on race. Results indicated that participants expressed ambivalent racial consciousness when they talked about: what it means to be White, their non-racial ident…
The Impact of Mandatory Reporting Laws on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Research illustrates the importance of help-seeking for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. However, mandatory reporting (MR) laws can affect help-seeking by requiring some sources of support to report survivors to formal systems. This convergent mixed methods study of 2462 survivors surveyed through the National Domestic Violence Hotline explores how MR laws impact survivors’ help-seeking, the outcomes of their help-seeking, and whether t…
Examining the Setting Characteristics that Promote Survivor Empowerment
Doing Equitable Work in Inequitable Conditions
The influence of low-barrier and voluntary service policies on survivor empowerment in a domestic violence housing organization
The purpose of community-based domestic violence crisis housing programs (e.g., shelters) is to provide a safe setting that promotes empowerment for survivors of intimate partner violence. For staff to reach this aim, the program must have formal structures and processes in place to support such efforts. This study explored how low-barrier and voluntary service policies influenced staff practices and survivor empowerment. Low-barrier policies req…
Institutional Strategies to Promote the Health of Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence is the use of physical, sexual, and/or psychological aggression by a current or former intimate partner as a tactic to maintain control. Abuse can have devastating long-term health consequences, including physical injuries and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders. Despite these challenges, Black women actively seek out support from multiple formal institutions to keep themselves and their famil…
Multilevel Risk and Protective Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Among African, Asian, and Latina Immigrant and Refugee Women
Bringing Community Based Participatory Research to Domestic Violence Scholarship
Reducing Prejudice Within Community-Based Organizations
Efforts to help community-based organizations (CBOs) develop interventions that reduce prejudice within the workplace and during service provision can be informed by social psychological prejudice reduction techniques, which tend to be successful in controlled laboratory settings but have limitations that inhibit utility in applied settings. Alternatively, the use of diversity training to reduce prejudice has increased within the for-profit secto…
XII. Femme-inism
Personal liberation for queer-identified feminists requires that we become conscious about what is inhibiting our ability to combat oppression and act in congruence with our own truth (Moane, 2010). To this end, some scholars have framed feminism as a mechanism of personal liberation from gender and sexist oppression. Yet, this connection can be critiqued due to the disproportionate value traditionally placed on the needs of upper-middle class wh…
Expectations to Change” (E2C)
From a utilization-focused evaluation perspective, the success of an evaluation is rooted in the extent to which the evaluation was used by stakeholders. This paper details the “Expectations to Change” (E2C) process, an interactive, workshop-based method designed to engage primary users with their evaluation findings as a means of promoting evaluation use and building evaluation capacity. The process is uniquely suited for contexts in which the a…
Oppression Within Safe Spaces
Racial microaggressions are often unintentional and subtle forms of racism that manifest in interpersonal communications, behaviors, or environments. The purpose of this study was to explore the presence of racial microaggressions within domestic violence shelters and to understand how women respond to them. Using a phenomenological approach to data collection and analysis, 14 Black women from 3 different shelters were interviewed. Twelve women r…
Erecting closets and outing ourselves
Feminist scholars and community psychologists have argued that reflexivity is a necessary component to conducting socially conscious research. Reflexivity, however, is rarely evident in community psychology. In this article, we share the uncomfortable realities that surfaced during a community‐based research project in which we adapted and implemented an HIV prevention intervention for young Black sexual minority women. We each describe how aspec…
The Impact of Mandatory Reporting Laws on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Research illustrates the importance of help-seeking for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. However, mandatory reporting (MR) laws can affect help-seeking by requiring some sources of support to report survivors to formal systems. This convergent mixed methods study of 2462 survivors surveyed through the National Domestic Violence Hotline explores how MR laws impact survivors’ help-seeking, the outcomes of their help-seeking, and whether t…
Identifying and Responding to the Complex Needs of Domestic Violence Housing Practitioners at the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The social, financial, and emotional repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic has left many organizations that support survivors of intimate partner violence questioning how to maintain core services while addressing compounding individual, organizational, and public health issues. Stay-at-home orders and other COVID-19 mitigation strategies have resulted in reduced shelter availability and increased intimate partner violence rates. Coupled with th…
Bringing Community Based Participatory Research to Domestic Violence Scholarship
Ambivalent White Racial Consciousness
Ambivalent white racial consciousness describes a push towards awareness about racial privilege and a simultaneous pull back from this knowledge into a more comfortable stance of denial. Twenty-nine White community members and undergraduate students participated in focus group discussions on race. Results indicated that participants expressed ambivalent racial consciousness when they talked about: what it means to be White, their non-racial ident…
Multilevel Risk and Protective Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Among African, Asian, and Latina Immigrant and Refugee Women
Oppression Within Safe Spaces
Racial microaggressions are often unintentional and subtle forms of racism that manifest in interpersonal communications, behaviors, or environments. The purpose of this study was to explore the presence of racial microaggressions within domestic violence shelters and to understand how women respond to them. Using a phenomenological approach to data collection and analysis, 14 Black women from 3 different shelters were interviewed. Twelve women r…
Erecting closets and outing ourselves
Feminist scholars and community psychologists have argued that reflexivity is a necessary component to conducting socially conscious research. Reflexivity, however, is rarely evident in community psychology. In this article, we share the uncomfortable realities that surfaced during a community‐based research project in which we adapted and implemented an HIV prevention intervention for young Black sexual minority women. We each describe how aspec…
Reflecting and rejuvenating our work, together
Community psychology has long valued reflexive praxis as a critical part advancing our research and action. In this Virtual Special Issue (VSI), we, a group of community psychologists and gender‐based violence (GBV) researchers at many different points in our careers, reflected on GBV publications that have appeared in AJCP. We examine the ways in which community psychology broadly and articles in AJCP more specifically have conceptualized GBV as…
Doing Equitable Work in Inequitable Conditions
XII. Femme-inism
Personal liberation for queer-identified feminists requires that we become conscious about what is inhibiting our ability to combat oppression and act in congruence with our own truth (Moane, 2010). To this end, some scholars have framed feminism as a mechanism of personal liberation from gender and sexist oppression. Yet, this connection can be critiqued due to the disproportionate value traditionally placed on the needs of upper-middle class wh…
Examining the Setting Characteristics that Promote Survivor Empowerment
Reducing Prejudice Within Community-Based Organizations
Efforts to help community-based organizations (CBOs) develop interventions that reduce prejudice within the workplace and during service provision can be informed by social psychological prejudice reduction techniques, which tend to be successful in controlled laboratory settings but have limitations that inhibit utility in applied settings. Alternatively, the use of diversity training to reduce prejudice has increased within the for-profit secto…
Expectations to Change” (E2C)
From a utilization-focused evaluation perspective, the success of an evaluation is rooted in the extent to which the evaluation was used by stakeholders. This paper details the “Expectations to Change” (E2C) process, an interactive, workshop-based method designed to engage primary users with their evaluation findings as a means of promoting evaluation use and building evaluation capacity. The process is uniquely suited for contexts in which the a…
Erecting closets and outing ourselves
Feminist scholars and community psychologists have argued that reflexivity is a necessary component to conducting socially conscious research. Reflexivity, however, is rarely evident in community psychology. In this article, we share the uncomfortable realities that surfaced during a community‐based research project in which we adapted and implemented an HIV prevention intervention for young Black sexual minority women. We each describe how aspec…
Expectations to Change” (E2C)
From a utilization-focused evaluation perspective, the success of an evaluation is rooted in the extent to which the evaluation was used by stakeholders. This paper details the “Expectations to Change” (E2C) process, an interactive, workshop-based method designed to engage primary users with their evaluation findings as a means of promoting evaluation use and building evaluation capacity. The process is uniquely suited for contexts in which the a…
Oppression Within Safe Spaces
Racial microaggressions are often unintentional and subtle forms of racism that manifest in interpersonal communications, behaviors, or environments. The purpose of this study was to explore the presence of racial microaggressions within domestic violence shelters and to understand how women respond to them. Using a phenomenological approach to data collection and analysis, 14 Black women from 3 different shelters were interviewed. Twelve women r…
XII. Femme-inism
Personal liberation for queer-identified feminists requires that we become conscious about what is inhibiting our ability to combat oppression and act in congruence with our own truth (Moane, 2010). To this end, some scholars have framed feminism as a mechanism of personal liberation from gender and sexist oppression. Yet, this connection can be critiqued due to the disproportionate value traditionally placed on the needs of upper-middle class wh…
Reducing Prejudice Within Community-Based Organizations
Efforts to help community-based organizations (CBOs) develop interventions that reduce prejudice within the workplace and during service provision can be informed by social psychological prejudice reduction techniques, which tend to be successful in controlled laboratory settings but have limitations that inhibit utility in applied settings. Alternatively, the use of diversity training to reduce prejudice has increased within the for-profit secto…
Bringing Community Based Participatory Research to Domestic Violence Scholarship
Examining the Setting Characteristics that Promote Survivor Empowerment
Doing Equitable Work in Inequitable Conditions
The influence of low-barrier and voluntary service policies on survivor empowerment in a domestic violence housing organization
The purpose of community-based domestic violence crisis housing programs (e.g., shelters) is to provide a safe setting that promotes empowerment for survivors of intimate partner violence. For staff to reach this aim, the program must have formal structures and processes in place to support such efforts. This study explored how low-barrier and voluntary service policies influenced staff practices and survivor empowerment. Low-barrier policies req…
Institutional Strategies to Promote the Health of Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence is the use of physical, sexual, and/or psychological aggression by a current or former intimate partner as a tactic to maintain control. Abuse can have devastating long-term health consequences, including physical injuries and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders. Despite these challenges, Black women actively seek out support from multiple formal institutions to keep themselves and their famil…
Multilevel Risk and Protective Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Among African, Asian, and Latina Immigrant and Refugee Women
The Impact of Mandatory Reporting Laws on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Research illustrates the importance of help-seeking for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. However, mandatory reporting (MR) laws can affect help-seeking by requiring some sources of support to report survivors to formal systems. This convergent mixed methods study of 2462 survivors surveyed through the National Domestic Violence Hotline explores how MR laws impact survivors’ help-seeking, the outcomes of their help-seeking, and whether t…
Ambivalent White Racial Consciousness
Ambivalent white racial consciousness describes a push towards awareness about racial privilege and a simultaneous pull back from this knowledge into a more comfortable stance of denial. Twenty-nine White community members and undergraduate students participated in focus group discussions on race. Results indicated that participants expressed ambivalent racial consciousness when they talked about: what it means to be White, their non-racial ident…
Identifying and Responding to the Complex Needs of Domestic Violence Housing Practitioners at the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The social, financial, and emotional repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic has left many organizations that support survivors of intimate partner violence questioning how to maintain core services while addressing compounding individual, organizational, and public health issues. Stay-at-home orders and other COVID-19 mitigation strategies have resulted in reduced shelter availability and increased intimate partner violence rates. Coupled with th…
Women's Formal Help-Seeking Before and After Their Abusive Partner Initiates Relationship Violence Treatment
Intimate partner violence survivors ( N = 122) reported on formal help-seeking before and after their male partners enrolled in a Relationship Violence Intervention Program (RVIP). At baseline, only 20% of survivors had ever received domestic abuse (DA) counseling. DA counseling was more common among survivors with more extensive partner abuse exposures, and for black women residing in suburban versus urban communities. New help-seeking was assoc…
Survivors’ Perspectives on Relationship Violence Intervention Programs
Reflecting and rejuvenating our work, together
Community psychology has long valued reflexive praxis as a critical part advancing our research and action. In this Virtual Special Issue (VSI), we, a group of community psychologists and gender‐based violence (GBV) researchers at many different points in our careers, reflected on GBV publications that have appeared in AJCP. We examine the ways in which community psychology broadly and articles in AJCP more specifically have conceptualized GBV as…
Weight-Based Health Care Discrimination and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Black Sexual and Gender Minoritized Assigned Female at Birth Adults in the United States
Introduction: Black sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) people assigned female at birth (AFAB) face notable barriers to cervical cancer screening, including racism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism. Although weight-based discrimination is prevalent in the United States and may compound other forms of discrimination, no study has examined the association between weight-based discrimination in health care settings and Pap test use among Black SGM AFA…
Separate and Cumulative Impacts of Trauma-Informed Practices and a Housing Intervention on the Safety, Housing Stability and Mental Health of Domestic Violence Survivors Over Two Years
Purpose Trauma-informed practices (TIP) with intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors contributes to short-term improvements in their mental health. However, less is known about TIP’s long-term value for mental health and whether TIP’s value extends to other life domains, such as housing. Focused on the outcomes of housing stability, mental health, and violence experiences, this longitudinal study examined the contributions of TIP and Domestic V…
When Policy Is Not Enough
Policies throughout the U.S. respond to the well-documented relationship between housing instability and intimate partner violence (IPV), but in practice survivors’ needs often remain unmet. In this community-based participatory study, an interdisciplinary research team interviewed 41 survivors seeking emergency housing assistance at the sole public gateway for homeless families in Washington, D.C. Only four survivors received immediate assistanc…
Political science (15 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (11 obras) · Poison control (11 obras) · Suicide prevention (11 obras) · Domestic violence (10 obras) · Public relations (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras)