Meadow Jones, Ph.D., is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at DataX and the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. Dr. Jones is a feminist researcher, writer, teacher, and social practice artist. Her research explores the use of artistic, material, and socially-based practices to address both individual and collective trauma, as well as structural violence. As a working-class, disabled, first-generation scholar, Dr. Jones works to build inclusive, embodied communities of engaged practice to counter the consequences of structural violence.Her forthcoming monograph, Archiving the Trauma Diaspora, is a significant scholarly contribution to arts-based research, integrating critical trauma studies, disability studies, queer theory, and intersectional feminist theories of data and technology. In addition to her experience as an AWA facilitator, she has adapted her research into trauma-responsive curricula and workshops.An engaged social practice artist, award-winning filmmaker, and community organizer, Dr. Jones's work has been published in literary journals, peer-reviewed scientific journals, poetry collections, books, and chapbooks. She facilitates arts and writing practices for a diverse range of populations, including undergraduates, artists, activists, teachers, teenagers, trauma survivors, prisoners, individuals with visible and invisible disabilities, caregivers, doctors, and medical students.In addition to offering workshops, Meadow provides one-on-one creative consulting and trauma recovery coaching. In other parts of her life Meadow is a dharma student at the Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple, a facilitator at the Gesundheit Institute and the School for Designing a Society, a collaborator with The Prop Theatre, and on the board of directors of the Amherst Writers and Artists.
