Michele Tracy Berger is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research, teaching, and practice all focus on intersectional approaches to studying areas of inequality, especially racial and gender health disparities. This work spans the fields of public health, sociology and women's and gender studies. 

Her most recent book Thriving vs. Surviving explores the real-life meanings and everyday practices of health (i.e., mental, physical, emotional, and sexual). 

Lunch and refreshments will be served.