Carmela M. Roybal, Ph.D. MBGPH MA is a Research Professor and the Executive Director of the Native American Budget and Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico.
Her specialties include: medical sociology, bioethics, and public health with a focus on the sociological study of race, gender, ethnicity, discrimination and health disparities. Her research uses intersectionality as a tool for examining racialized and gendered inequalities in health, with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples of the United States and globally. In addition, Carmela is a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, She is a Senior Research Fellow at the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), where she received her second Master’s Degree in Bioethics and Global Public Health in 2017 and is a member of the AUSN Board of Governors. She takes on critical policy projects that support the health and well-being of tribal communities across the state of New Mexico.
Intergenerational Opioid Use and the Long-Term Impact on Community Health
Carmela M. Roybal’s Current Book project, “Intersectionality and Lived Experiences of Inequality: Intergenerational Addiction, Opioid Use, and the Constrained Choices of Women Caregivers in Rural New Mexico,” is an intersectional knowledge project guided by attention to the simultaneity of structural inequalities, such as settler colonialism, structural racism, racialized capitalism, and heteropatriarchy, all of which shape women’s lives. Through a decolonial lens, her research will take an intersectional approach to understanding the health and social inequalities experienced by women living through an opioid epidemic. She examines the lived experience of Native American, Latina, and White women as they navigate a family addiction, constrained choices, and layers of overlapping inequalities in housing, employment and health. Through centering the voices of women, Carmela provides not only theoretical and empirical contributions to the racialized and gendered dynamics of oppression and resistance, but she also builds the foundation for policy change and action. It is her hope that this study also changes the conversation about the fundamental causes of childhood traumas, addiction, and opioid misuse and shapes solutions through equity-based policies and practices that center women’s lives.
Born and raised in New Mexico, land, culture, and language, are all an integral part of Carmela’s existence. Carmela calls Ohkay Owingeh (Land of the Strong) Pueblo and the Embudo Valley her home. In addition, she is a descendent of Sakonaekwaeku’i’e Owingeh, and the genízaros and Mexicanos of the Northern Rio Grande Valley.
Evans, Laura E., Raymond Foxworth, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Cheryl Ellenwood, and Carmela M. Roybal. "Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in US States." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8, no. 8 (2022): 135-152.
Foxworth, Raymond, Laura E. Evans, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Cheryl Ellenwood, and Carmela M. Roybal.
"“I Hope to Hell Nothing Goes Back to The Way It Was Before”: COVID-19, Marginalization, and Native Nations." Perspectives on Politics 20, no. 2 (2022): 439-456.
Roybal, Carmela M. "Tribal Communities and Nations in a Time of COVID-19." Eubios Journal of Asian & International Bioethics 30 (2020).
Roybal, Carmela, and Jeffrey Mitchell. "Nancy López, Michael O’Donnell, Lucas Pedraza." The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy (2019): 215.
COVID19: INTERNET ACCESS AND THE IMPACT ON TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN NEW MEXICO, NATIVE AMERICAN BUDGET POLICY INSTITUTE
https://www.iad.state.nm.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/nabpi-iad-broadband-report-final.pdf
2020 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship Award, Sociologists for Women in Society
2020 Substance Use Disorder Fellowship Award, University of New Mexico
2020 Feminist Research Institute Award, University of New Mexico
2020 Center for Regional Studies Award, University of New Mexico
2016 Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy Fellow, University of New Mexico
Announcing the 2020 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship Award Winner Carmela M. Roybal - Sociologists for Women in Society (pdf)
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