Rosi Andrade, PhD Current Position:        Associate Research Professor; Southwest Institute for Research on Women                                     University of Arizona   Contact:                      University of Arizona   925 N. Tyndall Tucson, AZ 85721-0438 rosia@email.arizona.edu Research Expertise and Background                     Since 1999, I have worked as a researcher in the field of health and criminal justice and mental health disparities.  These positions have included occupying the roles of PI, Co-PI and Evaluator for numerous research projects funded by organizations such as NIDA, CSAT, NSF, U.S. Department of Education, Kellogg Foundation, Stocker Foundation, Arizona Humanities Council, and local entities. As a community-based researcher, I am committed to examining approaches aimed at reducing health disparities, substance abuse, and criminal justice involvement while increasing access to resources that lead to improved mental health status, personal development, and self-sufficiency of individuals and their families.  My research focuses on the effectiveness of interventions informed by cultural, gender, and developmentally appropriate strategies, specifically with regard to race/ethnicity, gender, and age disparities to inform the development and delivery of interventions. I have served as a member of the Southern Arizona HIV Prevention Planning Group and been appointed to the Arizona Statewide Planning Group under CDC Community Planning Guidance, Co-Chair of CSAT-sponsored National Latino Coalition, and currently serve as a board member of Compass Affordable Housing. More recently, in collaboration with the Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission we completed a review and qualitative study exploring women’s struggles in living in poverty. My research also focuses on the impact of participatory action projects as a mediator for change in the relationship between trauma, substance abuse, criminal behavior, recovery and well-being. Important to this application, I have been the Principal Investigator and project director of two SAMHSA HIV prevention projects and a SAMHSA Pregnant and Postpartum women project located in Tucson Arizona. My involvement with NIDA- and SAMHSA-funded pregnant and postpartum projects began in 1999, and my work with immigrant women and families since the mid-1990s. I have expertise in working with populations in treatment or actively involved in substance abuse with criminal justice involvement backgrounds. Our 5-year CSAT-funded HerStory to Health project, which served homeless and near-homeless women with high risk behaviors, for example, found that of 470 women entering the program, 85.7% reported histories of legal involvement at some point in their lives, with 68.9% being convicted. As a community-based university researcher, I am trained in qualitative research methods, including participatory methodologies that integrate staff and participants in the development and delivery of interventions as well as in the interpretation of data findings. Education University of Arizona               Tucson AZ.                  BA       1982    Italian/Psychology University of Arizona               Tucson, AZ.                 PhD     1994    Reading           Selected Peer Reviewed Publications Andrade, R. (2019). Spotlight on Substance Abuse: Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Addiction. In Arizona Town Hall: Creating Solutions. Strong Families Thriving Children, pp 32-34. ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Luibhéid, E., Andrade, R., & Stevens, S. (2019). Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: Lessons from undocumented mothers seeking benefits for citizen children. In Umut Erel & Tracey Reynolds (Eds). Migrant Mothers’ Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship, Ethnic and Racial Studies (pp 17-35). Routledge. Stevens, S. Davis, M., Sargus, T., Black, C., Andrade, R., & Murphy, S. (2019). Women in the ADOT Workforce. Arizona Department of Transportation: Phoenix, Arizona. Andrade, R., & Frank, F., (2018). Health and Social Well-Being in Chronically Homeless Women: Tucson and Southern Arizona's Current Risks and Future Opportunities. Making Action Possible for Southern Arizona (MAP) Talks. University of Arizona Eller Economic and Business Research Center. MAP Talk webinars are available in the MAP Dashboard library https://mapazdashboard.arizona.edu/library?type=All&tag=1914 Stevens, S., Andrade, R., Korchmaros, J., and  Sharron, K. (2015). Intergenerational trauma among substance using Native American, Latina, and Caucasian mothers living in southwestern United States. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 15,1, 6-24. Stevens, S., and Andrade, R. (2015). Fractured mothering: The impact of U.S. and Arizona immigration policies on Mexican immigrant mothers with U.S. and non-U.S. citizen children. In T. Takseva and A. Sgoutas (Eds.) Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Zones. Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Demeter Press, Bradford, ON. Andrade, R., Boyle, J.S., and Hughes, A. (August 27, 2014). How women manage in tough economic times: Coping with hardship in Southern Arizona. The University of Arizona and Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission. Andrade, R., and Stevens, S. (2011). Finding voice: The literature study group for substance-involved women. In M. Miller and K. P. King (Eds.) Our Bodies, Ourselves: The EmBODYment of Women’s Literacy, Adult Education Special Topics: Theory, Research & Practice in Lifelong Learning. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC, 137-149.                                                          Stevens, S., Andrade, R.A.C., and Ruiz, B.S. (2009). Women and substance abuse: Gender, age and cultural considerations. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 8, 341-358. Andrade, R., Moll, L., Stevens, S., and Spear-Ellinwood, K.  (2006). Establishing ties: HIV prevention through facilitation: The case of Mujer Sana – Healthy Woman. In C. A. Grant & L. M. Summerfield (Eds.) Humanizing Pedagogy through HIV/AIDS Prevention: Transforming Teacher Knowledge. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.  Andrade, R., & Estrada, A. (2003).  Are Hispana IDUs Tecatas? Reconsidering Gender and Culture. in Hispana Injection Drug Use. Substance Use and Misuse: An International Interdisciplinary Forum 38(8), pp. 1133-1158.