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Katherine Jackman is a PhD student at Columbia University School of Nursing. She is also a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who specializes in working with children and adolescents. She completed a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Yale University. She has practiced in both acute and long-term in-patient settings, a community based out-patient clinic and a private practice. Her areas of research interest include mental health outcomes of sexual and gender minority youth. She is committed to the development of the nursing profession and future nurses. She has served as an item writer for the ANCC certifying examination for family psychiatry-mental health nurse practitioners and a preceptor to master’s level psychiatric nursing students. She participates in local professional organizations, including the Society of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses of the New Jersey State Nurses Association, as well as national and international nursing organizations.