Biography: Leslie Collins

Collins, L.V., Barnes, S.L., Heffernan, K., and Lyew, D. (2022). "Knowledge about HIV-Related Services among Young Blacks with Diverse Sexual Identities: An Intra-Racial Analysis" Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Collins, L.V., Glasgow, L., Tyra, E., Wade, S., Summerow, M. & Jones, M. N. (2021). Creating Change Agents: Teaching HBCU undergraduates to use community-based research to resist racism. Global Journal of Community Psychology, winter/spring 2021.

Barnes, S. L., Collins, L.V. (2019). I feel blacker: Applying a black feminist paradigm to an intervention program for black men who have sex with men in Tennessee. Sexuality and Culture, 23 862-881.

Thurber, A., Collins, L.V., Greer, M., McKnight, D., & Thompson, D. (2018). Resident experts: The potential of critical participatory action research to inform public housing research and practice. Action Research 0(0) 1-9.

Collins, L.V. (2015) Examining race and privilege in health and human service organizations: A case study. Issues in Race and Society: An Interdisciplinary Global Journal

Collins, L. V., & Barnes, S. L. (2014). Observing privilege: Examining manifestations of race, class, and gender in health and human service organizations. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology 6 (1), 61-83.

Collins, L. V. (2014). Examining the relationship between colorism and racial battle fatigue. In K. Varner, K. Albert, R. Mitchell & C. Allen (Eds.), Racial Battle Fatigue: Differences and Divisions in Higher Education. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Freedman, D, Bell, B., and Collins, L.V. (2011). The veggie project: A case study of a multi-component farmers’ market intervention. Journal of Primary Prevention, 32, 213-224.

Nation, M., Collins, L. V., Nixon, C., Bess, K., Rodgers, S., & Williams, N. (2010). Community-Based participatory approach to bullying prevention and school climate change: The alignment enhanced service project. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 4 (3), 197-205.

Bess, K. D., Prilleltensky, I., Perkins, D. D., & Collins, L. V. (2009). Participatory Organizational Change in Community-based Health and Human Services: From Tokenism to Political Engagement. American Journal of Community Psychology, 43, 134-148.

Evaluation and Reports

Collins, L.V. and Barnes, S.L. (2020). Evaluation Report (Year 5): The IAM Experience: A Quantitative Analysis to Understand Participant Efficacy and Attitudes About Race and Spirituality. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University and Fisk University (Evaluation Report for SAMHSA grant 26 pages)

Peters, S.R. and Collins, L.V. (2020). Community Engagement: Focus Groups on Policing and the
Kendrick Consent Decree. Nashville, TN: Fisk University (Prepared for Memphis Police Department Monitoring Team (19 pages)

Collins, L.V. and Barnes, S.L. (2020). Evaluation Report (Year 4) The IAM Experience: A Qualitative Analysis of Opinion Leaders’ Perspectives. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University and Fisk University (Evaluation Report for SAMHSA grant 28 pages)

Collins, L.V. and Barnes S.L. (2018). Evaluation Report (Years 1-3): The IAM Experience: Analyzing Processes and Outcomes in A HIV Prevention Program. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University and Fisk University (Evaluation Report for SAMSHA grant, 31 pages)

Collins, L.V. and Thurber, A. (2014). Evaluation Report: Cayce Homes: Working Neighborhood Assessment, Nashville, TN: Cayce-United (Evaluation Report, 6 pages).

Collins, L.V. (2012). Evaluation Report: Participants’ Perspectives and Outcomes in Youth Summer Enrichment Programs (THRUST, GUSTO, and PSCI), Nashville, TN: Fisk University-Physics Department (Internal Evaluation, 30 pages).

Collins, L.V. (2011). Evaluation Report: Voices from Our America: Middle Tennessee Worldviews, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, (Internal Evaluation, 15 pages)