Kelly Krainak is PhD student in the School of Nursing. She is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and artist from West Virginia. Her recent project, Weight Support: Implementing Feminist Therapy for a Women’s Group, centered on an evaluation of Western, androcentric attitudes of femininity/image in order to re-contextualize underlying pathologies of disordered eating.
Research interests include climate mitigation and the compounding impacts of topography, mining, flooding, and preexisting multi-disparity indices among West Virginians. Krainak received her doctor of nursing practice degree from the University of Illinois–Chicago and her master of fine arts degree in painting from West Virginia University.