Meet Our Board Members

 Jennifer Carroll is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at North Carolina State University. She is a medical anthropologist who has been serving, researching, and collaborating in harm reduction spaces for more than 20 years. Her research has spanned the implementation of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in Ukraine, the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on people who use drugs in Russia, emergent practices for managing xylazine-associated wounds in the United States, and the key role that trusted drug sellers play in protecting people who use drugs from overdose, and the measurable impact of law enforcement activity in driving excess overdose events. She is a trained FTIR technician and loves talking about drug checking with anyone who will listen. She is also a proud member of the Advisory Circle for the North Carolina Survivors Union, the largest drug user union in the South. She named her oldest cat (Ulana) after the former Minister of Health of Ukraine responsible for nationalizing primary health care services in 2017. She speaks to her cats almost exclusively Ukrainian, but they rarely listen.