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Paula Ford

  2. October 7, 1953 – April 29, 2010

    A student of TriYoga for several years, Paula worked in nursing in Dubuque and Iowa City. While in Iowa City, her interests turned to the role of women in society and she entered the University of Iowa to study Anthropology. Her studies took to her to rural and urban communities in Guatemala and Nicaragua. She was awarded a Master's of Art in Anthropology in 1990 for her thesis Social Transformations in Guatemalan Communities: Class, Ethnic, and Gender Relations and a Ph.D in 2000 for her dissertation thesis Narratives of Social Healing: Cultural Politics and the Nicaraguan Women's Movement. Following that, she returned to nursing at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where she provided compassionate care to those with mental disorders, particularly eating disorders.

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