Ally Day, PhD is a Research Navigator with the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Scholars Academy. Ally comes to us from the University of Toledo where she was an Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Disability Studies Program. She earned her PhD at The Ohio State University in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies where she investigated how women with HIV negotiate medical care. Her first book, The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine and Crip Positionalities (The Ohio State University Press 2021) won the National Women’s Studies Association’s Allison Piepmeier Award. Her second book, Beyond Gestational Ableism: Disability, Pregnancy and the Future of Care (forthcoming), like her first, uses multiple qualitative methodologies to unpack how people with multiply-marginalized identities navigate medical systems in the United States. She is the author of more than 20 book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and reviews.
After spending 15 years in the Midwest, Ally left her faculty position in Toledo move home to Portland with her wife, son, cat, and dog. When she is not eagerly and energetically helping BBCH SA’s faculty and residents with research, she is co-hosting and producing her award-winning podcast, “Telling It Our Way”, which features the stories of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, serving as a birth and post-partum doula, and practicing yoga. She also loves reality competition shows.
Scholarship Areas of Interest: Qualitative methodologies; health humanities; disability, intersectionality, and medical systems; care ethics; stigma