Josephine Ensign
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Josephine Ensign

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Josephine Ensign is professor of nursing and adjunct professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She teaches public health, health policy, and health humanities. A graduate of Oberlin College and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she has been a nurse for over thirty years, providing health care for homeless and marginalized populations. She has had writing residencies at Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Mesa Refuge, where she was named the 2023 May and Jack Elinson Public Health Fellow. Ensign is the author of Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net and Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins as well as Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins, and Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City (paperback version is Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle. She was a 2018 U.S.-U.K. Fulbright scholar, based in Edinburgh, for research on the history of English and Scottish Poor Laws. Her book, Way Home: Ways Out of Homelessness, is forthcoming (2024) from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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    • Skid Road

    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • By: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-2021
    • Language: English
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