Carey Candrian knows there isn’t much space for art in medicine or academia.
Before the pandemic, Candrian, who holds a Ph.D. in health communication and works as a professor at the University of Colorado School Anschutz Medical Campus, received a grant to interview older LGBTQ women in Colorado in order to better understand the challenges they face as they’ve aged. But she quickly realized it would be a tall task to move the general public by their stories—after all, how do you convince anyone to pore over academic literature outside a classroom?