I’m Abaki Beck (she/her), a writer and public health PhD student based in Minneapolis.
writer
My writing has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Yes! Magazine, TalkPoverty, Health Affairs, High Country News, Aperture, the Establishment, Wear Your Voice Magazine, the 2022 anthology Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America, the 2023 anthology Artists Remaking Medicine, and elsewhere. You can follow me on Substack here.
researcher
As an aspiring scholar, I am dedicated to community-driven and community-accountable research to advance Indigenous health equity. I’m particularly interested in how incarceration and criminalization influence health outcomes. I’m currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
things I’m proud of
A podcast interview on decolonizing public health research.
A label for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Blackfeet gender and knowledge transmission.
A reentry resource guide for St Louis, made in collaboration with currently and formerly incarcerated people.
An oral-history project on Blackfeet food sovereignty, interviewing tribal elders.