In this commentary article, I discuss common barriers to creating and sustaining accessible learning environments in higher education and suggest key facilitators of equal educational opportunity. While accessibility in higher education often focuses on disabled and chronically ill students, many accessible strategies prove beneficial for other historically marginalized groups such as LGBTQI+, women, care-giving, and wage-earning learners. Educators can encourage equitable classroom environments by adapting several key components of the adaptations made during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely flexible course modality, hybrid student support, and virtual opportunities for student engagement.

My current research investigates the relationship between socially-constructed identity and health experiences and outcomes. In "Incongruous Identities: Mental Distress and Burnout Disparities in LGBTQ+ Health Care Professional Populations", I theorize why LGBTQ+ health care professionals often report higher levels of stress compared to their cisgender, heterosexual, endosex counterparts. This paper calls for additional research to explain multiply-marginalized identities in relation to workplace environmental characteristics, such as discriminatory policies, interpersonal bias, and public misperception.

"Preliminary evaluation of an acceptance and commitment therapy group for transgender and gender expansive adults" investigates the effectiveness and utility of structured acceptance and commitment therapy for transgender and gender expansive adults. We discuss the specific needs of transgender and gender expansive people within sociocultural contexts that construct transphobic and cisnormative environments. Psychotherapy continues to adapt to the needs and desires of transgender and gender expansive people to improve depression and psychological inflexibility. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-95269-001?doi=1 

"Transgender Inclusive and Specific Health Care" explains the importance of differentiating between inclusive and specific efforts regarding the transgender population in health care settings. This article is most concerned with political measures to address, mitigate, and prevent the mistreatment of transgender people in health care. The targeting of transgender people in the United States has increased in the past several years, illustrating the importance of protective policies that both address the specific needs of the transgender community and also include transgender people in needs that are not specifically related to transgender identities.

The critical commentary, "Health Care as a Means of Social Control: An Argument Against Galvanizing Through Education" describes the trend of health care institutions to offer educational interventions despite mixed evidence of their efficacy. This work calls for intentional consideration of intervention strategies to match problems with evidence-based solutions. While educational interventions can be extremely effective when applied appropriately, they are far from a panacea and ought to be seen as such.