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Olivia Hunte, MSW

Doctoral Student
University of Denver, United States

Originally from St. Lucia and raised in Atlanta, GA Olivia is a multidimensional Black queer femme currently thriving in Denver, CO. As a multi-passionate individual, she is leaning into softness while centering self and communal healing. Olivia is community-oriented and dedicated to disrupting systems of oppression while centering pleasure and healing. Understanding how the dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression shape our realities. Olivia takes an anti-oppressive approach to her professional and creative practices. In her work, she strives to build identity affirming spaces centering the voices of those forced to the margins of society. She does so with the steadfast belief in the transformative powers of storytelling. Olivia earned her MSW from the University of Denver, along with her BS in Psychology and Sociology from Georgia Southern University. As a committed social worker, she thoroughly enjoys facilitating the learning and development of future social work professionals in hopes of expanding collective impact. Olivia has served as a lecturer in the undergraduate program within the Department of Social Work at Metropolitan State University of Denver and furthered the department's diversity, equity, & inclusion efforts. Olivia's current research interests include community-centered research to investigate and create intervention frameworks that aim to center the identities and healing of the oppressed through analyzing how space is created for liberatory healing as we exist in the intersections of oppression.

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