Cartoonist Jen Leach Joins Graphic Medicine Int’l Board
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The Graphic Medicine International Collective has added two new board members: political theorist and historian Soha Bayoumi, PhD, and writer and cartoonist Jen Leach (Furtivedoodles).
Jen is New York based writer and cartoonist. She works at New York University driving student wellbeing communications and initiatives. Early in her career, she hid her (bipolar) diagnosis and her creative aspirations, doodling “furtively” in protest. While earning her MS in Narrative Medicine at Columbia, she discovered Graphic Medicine, and presenting at the Brighton conference marked her “coming out” as an artist and mental health advocate.
She’s produced three comic collections related to graphic medicine:
- “No Agony for DaFeet“, a mini-comic to increase awareness of foot-related health issues and reduce stigma and confusion around seeking treatment.
- “BOOBLESS” a book about life after double mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
- “Side Effects“, a series of comic illustrations about the ridiculous side effects of the medicines we take.
Soha work focuses on the Middle East and postcolonial and gender studies. She is a Teaching Professor in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities program at the Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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