Patricia Coleman-Burns

As a scholar, Professor Coleman-Burns has focused her career on retention and successful learning behaviors of underrepresented nursing students; health disparities and social justice in patient-centered care and providers' behaviors; Black ideology; and the Colored Women's Club Movement. She is an advocate for the right of all persons to be free from gender oppression, sexism, racism, and violence. She has served as the co-chairperson of U-M's Violence against Women Taskforce as well as serving on several advisory committees on diversity, multiucultural and women's issues. She serves on the Executive Board of Safehouse Center, which provides services for those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault. Her research is on racial identity and the reduction of health disparities. 

Feminist/womanist work since 1977; focus on centering the voices of descendants of enslaved Africans and especially anti- MisogyNoir. Community based activism.