Catherine McKinley

Catherine E. McKinley is an Associate Professor at the Tulane University School of Social Work who works on community-based participatory clinical research with Indigenous peoples. Dr. McKinley currently serves as Principal Investigator for the NIH clinical trial (R01AA028201) “Chukka Auchaffi’ Natana (In Choctaw): The Weaving Healthy Families Program to Promote Wellness and Resilience and Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence”. Her most recent work (2023) includes the book entitled, Understanding Indigenous Gender Relations and Violence Against Indigenous Women: Becoming Gender AWAke, which introduces the living in alignment with agility (Living AWAke) workshop as an extension of the ecological “Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence (FHORT)”, which centers culturally relevant risk and protective factors related to wellness across community, family, and individual levels from a relational perspective.