Matthew Stolman
Curriculum Development Intern, he/him/his
Matthew is a recent MPH graduate from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Population and Family Health Department, with a certificate in Sex, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health. He is currently a part-time research assistant at Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology lab, working on research concerning Black sexual minority men, networks and neighborhoods, HIV, and police violence. His research interests include LGBTQ health, youth homelessness, mental health, and social justice.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Public Health at University of Rochester with minors in Psychology and Theatre. During undergraduate, he wrote interactive online science curricula for young students, conducted database management and shadowed caseworkers with a county department of social services, and aided social workers at a homelessness outreach organization. Post-undergraduate, Matthew worked at a fair housing nonprofit organization where he coordinated and mortgage discrimination field testing, creating tester profiles, communicating with testers, analyzing results, and drafting a report. He also volunteered at an LGBTQ center, helping with content creation and management of their website and assisting with community events.