YSPH SBS Virtual 525 Seminar Series: Chelsey Carter, "Medical Gaslighting" in ALS Care: Black Patients' Quest to be Heard, Seen and Understood in Post-racial America”

Chelsey Carter is an MPH/PhD candidate in Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also completed a certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research examines how Black people with neuromuscular diseases (like ALS) navigate healthcare spaces and experience care by healthcare institutions in post-Ferguson St. Louis, Missouri. Chelsey’s scholarship has been recognized and funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society and the Spencer T. & Ann W. Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study. Her work has also been honored by the Marjorie Shostak Award for Excellence in Ethnographic Writing and the Heart of Emory award at her alma mater, Emory University. She can be found talking about her pit-bull, Nala, music and racism on Twitter at @AudreTaughtMe2.