Cory Ellen Gatrall, MFA, RN, is a COVID public health nurse and PhD student in nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to the pandemic, she provided care in labor/delivery/postpartum and abortion services. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master of fine arts in creative writing, she worked as a full-spectrum doula and abortion clinic escort organizer; she became a nurse to turn her passion into her career (and maybe get her vounteer hours under control). She sits on the board of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts, and is co-organizing an abortion doula collective. Her research interests lie at the intersections of nursing, history, public health, and anthropology.
Nursing Futurities 