Danielle Chiaramonte

Dani Chiaramonte, Ph.D., is a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in the Consultation Center’s Division of Prevention and Community Research. Dr. Chiaramonte currently works with the Family Violence Research Program in the Sullivan Lab and supports YaleEval with the 2020 Connecticut LGBTQ Community Survey.

My program of research promotes health equity for sexual and gender minorities through organizational and system-level change. As a community psychologist, I work from an ecological perspective and conduct research in collaboration with community organizations and/or the communities they serve. Two lines of research guide my work. The first lies at the intersection of HIV and gender-based violence (GBV), focusing on multisystemic responses to HIV and GBV among sexual and gender minorities. My second line of work focuses on research methods and approaches that utilize existing community resources and elevate the voices of sexual and gender minority youth.

I believe that equitable, intentional, and reflexive collaboration with community members is a crucial step to conduct research in an ethical and valid way. As such, I hold my advocacy and activism work as highly as my research. I love working with RJ group because it gives us an opportunity to create spaces for other postdocs to have discussions, participate in actions, and learn about real equity issues that affect our communities and the communities we work with.