About

Email: karmeni1203@gmail.com

My name is Kelsey Armeni. I am a Phd student in Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. My academic interests are broadly around medicinal ecologies of knowledge, violence against womxn, and caring relationships. As a young girl I suffered from years of debilitating and complex post traumatic stress disorder. I found healing through a combination of contemplative practices like meditation and psychedelics, financial security, higher education, service work, and supportive community. This led me to anthropology and a curiosity with how different sociocultural, political, environmental, and economic factors shape practices of care and people's diverse experiences with healing, illness, and suffering. I started off my career within psychedelic healing spaces sitting with people in deep non ordinary states of consciousness and working within healthcare systems. Now, my work focuses on the local and global to understand womxn’s health and healing. I look at the context of historical and structural violence in shaping systems of healing and women’s embodied experiences of care.