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James "River" Robbins
River Robbins (he/him) is an MA student in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies working with Michelle Hughes-Miller and a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Medical Anthropology working with Nancy Romero-Daza. He previously earned Bachelor's degrees in Economics, Psychology, and Sociology and a Master's degree in Anthropology. His dissertation research focuses on language access and the experiences of Spanish-speaking Latina/o/e/x/Hispanic individuals seeking abortion care in NYC. He has previously worked or currently works on several interdisciplinary projects on a variety of topics including the experiences of frontline COVID-19 nurses, Amazigh women's equity in argan oil production in Morocco, modality among Mexican and Spanish patients in Spain, and sexual/reproductive health education in the US South. His research passions lie in language access, abortion, intersectionality, reproductive justice, medical interpretation, critical social justice activism, health equity, gender and healthcare, embodiment/emplacement, raciolinguistics, neoliberalism, language and music, and ethnomusicology. He serves as communications chair for USF Graduate Assistants United and edits the newsletter of the AAA Council on Anthropology and Reproduction. He also serves on the boards of the Society for Applied Anthropology's Human Rights and Social Justice Committee and the Crisis in Public Anthropology Working Group. River has two cats named Stormie and Ralphie and he plays and teaches violin and piano in his spare time.