Christa Sato

Mental Health | Social Work | Community | Wellness | Health | Youth | Intergenerational trauma, resistance, and healing, Filipino/a/x diasporic experiences in Canada, community mental health and wellness, mental health stigma, community-based research approaches and interventions, social work praxis with immigrant and racialized populations, qualitative and mixed-methods research, interdisciplinary intervention research, children and youth in-care and their families/caregivers, intimate partner violence (IPV).

Christa Sato joined UNBC in July 2024 and is also currently completing her doctoral studies with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Her PhD research focuses on applying a decolonial Pinayist (Filipina feminist) lens to explore the ways in which diasporic Filipino/a/x in Canada make meaning of suffering, resistance, and healing from intergenerational trauma impacts. She has over 10 years of experience working with immigrant and racialized populations, applying community-based research approaches and interventions in the areas of mental health stigma, intimate partner violence, and child welfare.