Elke
Zschaebitz,
DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
Elke Zschaebitz is a family nurse practitioner and Associate Professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing. She is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Global Education Institute on the Certification and Mentorship Committee. She serves as PI on several educational grants, including a national grant from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners for educational research using digital first-person narratives. She was the co-recipient of the Georgetown Provost Innovation in Teaching Award as well as The Interprofessional Global Award for seven years creating content and facilitating the Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE).
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In his pivotal work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paola Freire (1968) argues that one cannot expect positive results from an educational methodology that fails to respect the particular experience of people from whom language and learning are born. Freire goes on to articulate that is from the voice of the marginalized that a "midwifery of liberating pedagogy" is created not for but with individuals in order to reverse a "culture of silence (p.33). To enable this kind of transformative teaching, learning, research, and service, the lived experiences through the voices of the marginalized must be…