Intersectionality Summer Intensive™
Get Intense About Intersectionality
Dr. Patricia Hill Collins delivering the ISI 2023 Keynote Address
Spend an engaging and intensive 5 days with a community of researchers, practitioners, and students committed to using intersectionality to transform health equity research.
Save the date for ISI 2025:
July 7-11, 2025
To facilitate opportunities for interaction between and among ISI participants and facilitators, mentorship, collaboration, and socialization, we keep ISI intentionally small: just 50 or so spots.
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Oh there are so many! As a result of attending ISI, you’ll:
- Gain an in-depth understanding of intersectionality as theoretical framework and methodological tool for health equity research and critical praxis.
- Increase your proficiency to develop and conduct rigorous qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods intersectionality research with fidelity to core themes of intersectionality.
- Learn LOTS of important information to help you write stronger intersectionality grant proposals and articles.
- Have opportunities for mentorship from ISI facilitators, past ISI cohort members and your peers.
- Make new friends, meet new colleagues, and find collaborators for grant proposals and publications.
- Join an engaging and thriving community of people passionate and commitment to intersectionality, social justice, and health equity.
- Have countless opportunities to interact with, learn from, and be mentored by an engaging team of leading intersectionality researchers and community activists using intersectionality as a tool for critical praxis.
It runs from Monday through Friday, roughly 9 to 5 pm each day, with a welcoming reception on Monday evening. It includes a blend didactive and interactive activities to engage and enhance your learning. These include, but are not limited to:
- Large group sessions with presentations of core material and opportunities for Q&A
- Small group “clinics” focused on specific topics (e.g., “pain points,” dissertations)
- Small group qualitative and quantitative research sessions
- Small group academic-community partner conversations
- Opportunities for individual with facilitators and peer-mentoring.
- We offer an ISI Slack channel to share reading lists and resources, opportunities to identify collaborators. ISI days are pretty stacked, but the night owls among you can also use the ISI Slack channel to share resources about after ISI-hour things to do in Philadelphia.
We issue Certificates of Completion on the closing day of ISI.
Participant evaluations and feedback from ISI 2022 and ISI 2023 were stellar. By all accounts, our ISI program is excellent and we are so proud of it. Thus, other than a few tweaks to keep things fresh, a review of the ISI 2023 Program will provide you with a pretty good idea of what you can expect at ISI 2024. The final ISI 2024 program will be available in May 2024.
Here’s a summary of the important dates for ISI 2024:
- Applications window opens: Saturday, November 11, 2023
- Application window closes: Friday, February 16, 2024, 11:59 PM EST
- Notification of acceptance: Friday, March 15, 2024
- Payment due date: Friday, April 19, 2024
Oh, they say the most wonderful things about their experiences at ISI, things like:
“The Intensive brought together such an inspiring group of people dedicated to the pursuit of scientific inquiry for the advancement of social justice. In doing so, it reminded me that we are not alone, that we are connected to a history of incredible scholars and activists who have fought against these oppressive systems so that we can have the opportunity to deconstruct these systems further and build a better world. It reconnected me with the true reasons I pursued an academic path in the first place and empowered me to continue forward in line with my values. I simply cannot understate how powerful that is.” M Pease, Doctoral Student, ISI 2023
The summer intensive exceeded all of my expectations (and I had heard it was amazing!). The content was exceptional — I now feel like I can apply intersectionality to grant proposals and do research more responsibly that benefits communities. I enjoyed the connections with each other. I appreciated the thoughtful and helpful feedback and learning about everyone’s incredible work. I also loved how much we laughed and had fun amid all the learning and growth. Leah Marcotte, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, ISI 2023
See what they say about ISI after participating:
Doctoral Students: ISI 2023 Cohort
Courtney Gardner, MS
Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Central Florida
Deja Knight, MPH
Social & Behavioral Interventions Program, Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dielle, Lundberg, MPH
School of Public Health
University of Washington
Research Scientist: ISI 2022 Cohort
Rodrigo Aguayo-Romero, PhD
Research Scientist
Whitman-Walker Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow: ISI 2022 Cohort
Elle Lett, PhD, AM
Clinical Assistant Professor
Heath Systems and Population Health
School of Public Health
University of Washington
We offer three registration tiers:
- Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, nonprofit or academic, and government agency staff: $3,997
- Faculty: $4,997
- For-profit organizations: $5,997
Your registration includes the following:
- Resources and materials for each training session
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Snacks during breaks
- A welcome reception
The registration does NOT cover:
- Travel and lodging expenses
- Local transportation
- Dinner
We are not yet able to offer scholarships, but hope to be able to do so in the future. Most ISI participants are supported by funds from their institutions. Here’s a template that you can use to request support from your institution (e.g., Department Chair, Dean of Research, Supervisor). Although we can’t guarantee that your request will be successful, we believe that our template will increase your chances for success.
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Patricia Homan will be our distinguished guest and facilitator. Dr. Patricia Homan, Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Public Health Program at Florida State University, is in the vanguard of research and scholarship on structural intersectionality and health equity research.
Her innovative work in this area fills a critical gap. Read almost anything on intersectionality and health equity and invariably, you will read a call for more structural (vs. just individual-level) approaches to intersectionality. Dr. Homan is one of a small handful of researchers with expertise in designing and conducting research on intersectional structural discrimination in the context of health, and she’s bringing that knowledge to ISI 2024.
What about Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, who was our first ISI 2024 distinguished guest? Well, there is happy news on that front. The ceremony for her new Berggruen Philosophy Prize ceremony has prompted a shift in her international travel schedule, leaving her unable to participate in ISI 2024. She has promised us a future return, however.
Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA
ITI Founder and President
Ange-Marie Hancock, PhD
Academic Executive Director, Kirwan Institute
Ohio State University
Greta Bauer, PhD, MPH
Professor, Director and Chair
in Sexual Health, Institute for Sexual and Gender Health
University of Minnesota Medical School
Elle Lett, PhD, AM
Clinical Assistant Professor
Heath Systems and Population Health
School of Public Health
University of Washington
Chioma Nnaji, MPH, MEd
Program Director
Multicultural AIDS Coalition (MAC)
Dázon Dixon Diallo, MPH, DHL
Founder and President
SisterLove, Inc.
Greg Greenwood, PhD, MPH
Deputy Director, Division of AIDS Research
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
At The Study at University City, a beautiful hotel in West Philadelphia. The Study offers lots of natural light and lovely spaces for meeting, interacting, and socializing. We especially love the outdoor patios; they are ideal s for chatting, taking a break, enjoying lunch, and our receptions.
You should! We welcome applications from multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners at all career stages, and graduate at all career stages, and graduate students with varying degrees of knowledge and experience with intersectionality research, but who share an interest in building or enhancing their capacity to apply intersectionality to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods health equity research. ISI is ideally suited for:
- Faculty, postdoctoral, and other researchers with grant or other institutional support such as research training grants (e.g., NIH K-series awards, T32) or grants (e.g., NIH R-series awards) or institutional funding for professional or research development.
- Applicants from government (e.g., health departments) and non-profit and/or community-based organizations; and
- Doctoral students with department or other institutional support
The deadline to apply to ISI 2024 is Friday, February 16, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST.
Vision: Even if you don’t have lots of knowledge or experience with intersectionality, we want to know your vision about your plans to apply intersectionality to your current or future work. We want you to articulate why you’re applying to ISI and how the ISI will help get you accomplish your professional goals.
Research: Although ISI does address the application of intersectionality to health equity policy and practice, the program is primarily and heavily focused on research. Thus, strong applications are those that detail how ISI will help you with the intersectionality research that you are doing or plan to do.
Be thoughtful. The application is short and straightforward. Because of limited spaces to enter information, we find that applications where people have taken the time to carefully consider and craft their answers fare better than those where people just casually respond to the questions.
We will notify you of whether you have been accepted on Friday, March 15, 2024. Your acceptance letter will include a contract with terms and conditions for you to review and sign. And then your payment will be due on April 19, 2024 at 5pm EDT.
Note that we do not offer refunds or cancellation fees. We are, however, able to hold your spot at the next ISI and apply your current registration to it.
We encourage you to re-apply the following year. We have such a limited number of spots and receive more applications than we can accommodate. Thus, the reason that your application may not be accepted could be the result of limited available spots, and our desire to ensure that the cohort is diverse by intersectional positions, disciplines, professional roles (e.g., research, practitioners), level of knowledge and experience with intersectionality.
We’d be happy to hear from you. Please email us at info@intersectionalitytraining.com
