Kristine Muñoz is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa. She teaches courses on cultural storytelling, health narratives, culture, language and health. She conducts research on peace education in Colombia, where she has been involved in ethnographic fieldwork for over 40 years.

This website is the second for Muñoz that has been created through the University of Iowa Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio; her first was the independent project Medellín after Escobar. That site uses multimedia elements to create and circulate counter-narratives of the history, language and people of Colombia’s second-largest city, too often stereotyped by its violent past.

Daena Goldsmith is Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, where she teaches courses on health narratives and narrative medicine. She is also a member of the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative, a community that learns, practices and teaches what to do with health narratives and stories. Her research addresses practical questions about how friends and family communicate about illness and disability, including talk about lifestyle change in the wake of a cardiac event or sharing feelings about cancer diagnosis and treatment. Her book-in-progress examines how mothers use personal stories to advocate for autism acceptance.