Carmela M. Roybal, PhD MBGPH MA Dr. Carmela Roybal is a medical sociologist, trained in bioethics, public health, health policy with a focus on the study of race, gender, ethnicity, discrimination and health disparities. Her research uses intersectionality as a tool for examining racialized and gendered inequalities in health, with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples of the United States and globally. As a doctoral fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy, she studied and trained extensively in policy, she is a senior research fellow at the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), where in 2017 she received her second master’s degree in Bioethics and Global Public Health and is a member of the AUSN Board of Governors. She is a research associate at the American Budget Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico, where she takes on critical policy projects that support the health and wellbeing of tribal communities across the state of New Mexico. Recent publications include a sole-authored piece in the Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics titled “Tribal Communities and Nations in a Time of COVID-19” and a co-authored chapter titled " “Cultivating Intersectional Communities of Practice: A Case Study of the New Mexico Statewide Race, Gender, Class Data Policy Consortium as a Convergence Space for Co-Creating Intersectional Inquiry, Ontologies, Data Collection and Social Justice Praxis,” in the Intersectionality and Policy Handbook, edited by Olena Hanvisky and Julia Jordan-Zachery.