Interview with Dr. Julie Sweetland, PhD, MA
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Highlights from this episode:
1. Getting involved in public health work from a nontraditional linguistic background
2. Why public health needs more sociolinguistics and the important role they play in framing health opportunities
3. Linguistic research has focused on the intersection of language and race with a particular focus on how language can be used to disrupt racism and other forms of oppression
Episode 161 of Public Health Careers
Dr. Julie Sweetland, PhD, MA is a Senior Advisor at the FrameWorks Institute. She is a sociolinguist who focuses on how small differences in language have big effects on the world. Her linguistic research has focused on the intersection of language and race with a particular focus on how language can be used to disrupt racism and other forms of oppression.
She conferred a Bachelors in Linguistics at Georgetown University. Then conferred a PhD and Masters in Linguistics at Stanford University.
After graduating, Julie worked as Director of Teaching & Learning at Center for Inspired Teaching and worked as a Professional Lecturer (A.K.A. Adjunct Professor) at Georgetown University.
Julie went on to work at the FrameWorks Institute over the last 11 years. She started as the Director of Learning, then was promoted to Vice President of Strategy & Innovation, and now works as a Senior Advisor at FrameWorks Institute.
Links from show
Adding Power to Our Voices: A Framing Guide for Communicating About Injury at CDC
Framing Tobacco Disparities by ChangeLab Solutions
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Program
Books & Podcast
How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t – Leslie Crutchfield
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity – David Allen
