The Healthy Heels blog is coordinated and written by professional and graduate student staff at UNC Student Wellness, UNC Campus Health and UNC Counseling and Psychological Services. We include guest posts from UNC community members who are health topic experts. If you are interested in writing a post for HealthyHeels, please contact studentwellness@unc.edu.

Current Bloggers

Amee Wurzburg, Sexual Violence Prevention Program Manager

Amee earned her BA in History from Barnard College of Columbia University. Before moving to North Carolina, Amee worked at an organization in India focused on HIV, where she worked on projects related to rights-violations, LGBTQ health, and domestic violence. She also spent three years volunteering as a rape crisis counselor and advocate in an emergency department in NYC and over a year in East Africa on various sexual and reproductive health projects.

Amee is currently earning her Masters in Public Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC, anticipated graduation in 2017. Her interests involve sexual health and rights; she is especially interested in how people’s experiences with stigma and discrimination impact their access to healthcare. In her free time, Amee enjoys cooking and baking, tea, hiking, and trying to read her height in books each year.

Read blog articles by Amee.

 

 

Sara Stahlman, Marketing and Communication Coordinator 

Sara has worked for what is now the Healthy Heels collaboration since 2007. During that time, she has served as a sexual health educator, general health promotion specialist and now coordinates the websites, social media and marketing efforts for Healthy Heels and the entities within it. Sara has a love for the outdoors – especially water sports, bike riding, hiking and ultimate frisbee – and has a strong focus on making health inclusive of and accessible to all.