Annie Kiel, MPH, MA's Linkedin Analytics

Annie Kiel is a public health practitioner and organizational consultant specializing in multisector trauma-responsive program design and implementation. With experience spanning over 20 years, her background includes work on trauma as a public health issue, trauma-informed systems change, employee and organizational wellbeing, global sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence prevention and response, government-funded clinical research, nonprofit administration, nonprofit compliance and regulatory management, and community mental health program development and management. Annie has experience in federal, state, and county governmental agencies, domestic and international non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. Annie also has experience in direct service delivery with various trauma-impacted populations including survivors of intimate partner violence, combat- and non-combat U.S. veterans, immigrants and refugees, first responders, adolescents, and others. She conducted qualitative research on the sex trafficking of women and girls in Costa Rica and performed an ethnographic field study of the restorative justice practices used by Saraguros, an indigenous community in Ecuador. In 2013, Annie co-founded a 501(c)3 to train professionals in various fields on integrating trauma-informed principles and practices and provided a 12-week evidence-based trauma-informed yoga program in multiple states (from Massachusetts to California) to use yoga as a complementary public health intervention for trauma-impacted populations. Annie earned a Master of Public Health, with specialization in global health, from Boston University School of Public Health, a Master of Arts in Gender and Peace Building from the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Additionally, she is a trained health and wellness coach through Wellcoaches, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (with over 2K teaching hours and 550 hours of training). She lives in Duluth with her partner, toddler, and a theatrical Siberian Husky.