Karen Winkler

Karen Winkler teaches Community Health as an Assistant Professor in the Health Education Unit/Education Department of the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Doctoral Certificate in Women’s Studies, and worked for years as a nurse and a community health activist, researcher, and program consultant before specializing as a psychotherapist in chronic illness and young women’s development. Currently, she is developing a grant-funded training program and college pathway for community health workers from low-income communities in NYC. She is the former Director of Barnard’s Well-Woman Health Promotion Program. Karen’s scholarly interests include feminist psychoanalytic theories of girls’ sexuality and gender development, and narratives of the body.