Elsie Obeng-Kingsley

Elsie (she/her) is a registered social worker and a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health – Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division.

Elsie is committed to Black feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial praxis-centered approaches, and uses critical qualitative and arts-based research methodologies to explore the ways structural, intersecting oppressions impact Black women’s health. Under the co-supervision of Drs. Roberta Timothy and Lori Ross, Elsie’s SSHRC-funded doctoral research is an endarkened narrative inquiry (McClish-Boyd & Bhattacharya, 2024) that uses body mapping to examine the embodied experiences of Black women who utilize bariatric surgery in Canada through a Black feminist and Fat Studies’ lens.

Outside of her work, Elsie enjoys travelling, trying new (to her) restaurants, live music, trivia, and increasing her range of artistic activities.