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VÉRONËQUE IGNACE

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Ignace has built a professional career dedicated to advocacy for access to quality services and improving community health. She has committed her professional experience to a rigorous understanding of health and advocacy through applied public health practice in diverse fields. This has primarily accomplished this while working at the intersections of public health research, cultural arts, and community organizing.

Her professional toolkit includes fluency in spoken and written English (native), Haitian Creole (native), and Spanish (fluent), community organizing, strategic planning and visioning, partnership cultivation, network building with local government, program planning and evaluation, community-based participatory research, survey design, textual analysis, ethnography, curriculum design, lesson planning, and pedagogy centered on healing modalities and embodied knowledge.

EDUCATION

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy 
​Doctorate in Community Health and Health Policy - PhD Student 
 
SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Public Health
Master of Public Health - Department of Community Health Sciences
Culminating Experience: Exploring Performance Ethnography and Arts-Based Approaches to Public Health Interventions (Dr. Aimee Afable)  


Williams College
Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry; Concentration in Africana Studies (Highest Honors), Certificate in Spanish
​Honors Dossier: Health Through Dance: An Auto-biographical Journey of a Black Haitian Women at Williams College (Professor Shanti Singham, Professor Sandra L. Burton)


Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad, Santiago Chile 
Spanish Language Immersion and Healthcare Studies 

EXPERTISE

  • ​Community organizing, strategic planning and visioning, partnership cultivation, network building with local
  • government, program planning and evaluation
  • Community-based participatory research, survey design, textual analysis, ethnography
  • Curriculum design, lesson planning, and pedagogy centered on healing modalities and embodied knowledge
  • Human Subjects Research - IRB - Social-Behavioral-Education Focus, CITI Program (Feb 2022)
  • Fluent in spoken and written English (native), Haitian Creole (native), and Spanish (fluent)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, managerial, and organizational skills
  • Microsoft Office, G-Suite, Zendesk, Assembled, Slack, Asana, Lever, Zenefits, webpage creation, and social media 

AWARDS

Citizens Committee for New York City
Neighborhood Grant (Kriyol Dance! Collective)
April 2020, March 2019, March 2018

 
SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Public Health,
The Lowell E. Bellin, MD Award for Excellence in Public
 May 2017


EVIDENCE, A Dance Company
Beth Young Scholarship Recipient
 August 2016


Williams College
Ernest Brown Africana Arts Prize; Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship in Dance
 May 2015

AFFILIATIONS

  • Dance Studies Association, Member (June 2021)
  • Haitian Studies Association, Member (Sept 2018)
  • American Public Health Association, Member (Aug 2017) 

PRESENTATIONS

Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health for Collective Healing Haitian Studies Association Conference, Université Quisqueya Port-au-Prince, Haiti. November 2018
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Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health for Collective Healing Re-Imagining Black Girls' and Women's Health Symposium and Workshop, Towson University, MD. May 2018
 
Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health APHA 2017 - Annual Meeting & Expo, Atlanta, GA. November 2017
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