Doctoral Student

Alicia Roth Weigel is a doctoral student in Sociology at Rutgers University, whose research interests lie at the intersection of medical sociology, environmental sociology and gender studies. Her focus areas of equality and autonomy, liminality and transcendence, and the decolonization of health and embodiment are informed by her career as an advocate for stigmatized populations and medicines. She's also interested in how disconnection from nature (the self and the environment) affects wellbeing, as well as the relationship between personal and planetary healing.

Alicia earned a BA from Cornell University in 2012 and has since strived to improve healthcare and ensure representation for marginalized populations through her firm, Intrepida Strategy. A former Human Rights Commissioner for the City of Austin and member of Collective Speakers bureau, Alicia's work is featured in the Emmy-nominated film Every Body and her award-winning memoir Inverse Cowgirl.