Karen Coen Flynn, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Case Western Reserve University and a consultant with SAMHSA’s SMVF TA Center at Policy Research Associates, Inc. Dr. Flynn is an applied anthropologist whose 20+ years of experience include university teaching and research, program evaluation, and community training in the U.S., Tanzania, and Indonesia. Much of her career has focused on reducing hunger, homelessness, substance misuse, and justice system involvement of people with behavioral health challenges. Dr. Flynn has come to witness first-hand and develop a keen understanding of the burdensome intersections of poverty, homelessness, hunger, infectious disease, chronic illness (e.g., substance use disorder, traumatic stress) and stigma (e.g., veteran status, illicit-drug use), and the importance of developing solutions to these challenges by establishing collaborative relationships and partnerships between diverse individuals and across formerly divided groups, complex organizations and local-to-national levels of government. Dr. Flynn earned her master’s degree in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Harvard University.