Linda Crawford joined the Center for Bioethics and Humanities in January 2025 as a Community Outreach Liaison for the Arts & Humanities in Healthcare Program. In this role Linda is responsible for assisting with planning, coordinating, and implementing outreach activities to raise awareness of the exhibitions, educational programs, and events that align with the mission of the program to explore the intersection of art, ethics, and healthcare. Linda works to establish partnerships and relationships with organizations, local community groups, educational institutions, and the general public.

Linda brings a depth of experience in healthcare, event planning, leadership, and communications to the Community Outreach Liaison position. Linda practiced for 35 years as an occupational therapist, using a whole person, whole life biopsychosocial approach and regularly integrated art and music activities during therapy sessions with her clients. For the last ten years of her practice Linda specialized in working with adolescents and adults experiencing complex pain conditions. She has mentored doctoral capstone students, was a contributing author for the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) position paper “The Role of Occupational Therapy in Pain Management,” and has presented to a variety of local, national, and international multidisciplinary audiences on current pain science and emerging and innovative evidenced-based biopsychosocial therapy interventions.

Linda graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Occupational Therapy and a Minor in Human Anatomy and has completed master level courses in Curriculum and Instructional Design.

In addition to her healthcare career, Linda has worked as a freelance author, editor, and workshop presenter and has been a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator (CDWF) of Brené Brown’s courage building and shame resilience work since 2014.

Linda is a graduate of the CU Anschutz Multidisciplinary Center on Aging’s Older Adult Research Specialist (OARS) training program and recently completed a four-year term as the president of the Occupational Therapy Association of Colorado (OTAC).

Linda’s outside interests include watercolor painting, hiking, travel, writing, music, and playing board games with family. She also has future plans to relearn her favorite childhood activities of tap dancing and baton twirling.

Linda Crawford joined the Center for Bioethics and Humanities in January 2025 as a Community Outreach Liaison for the Arts & Humanities in Healthcare Program. In this role Linda is responsible for assisting with planning, coordinating, and implementing outreach activities to raise awareness of the exhibitions, educational programs, and events that align with the mission of the program to explore the intersection of art, ethics, and healthcare. Linda works to establish partnerships and relationships with organizations, local community groups, educational institutions, and the general public.

Linda brings a depth of experience in healthcare, event planning, leadership, and communications to the Community Outreach Liaison position. Linda practiced for 35 years as an occupational therapist, using a whole person, whole life biopsychosocial approach and regularly integrated art and music activities during therapy sessions with her clients. For the last ten years of her practice Linda specialized in working with adolescents and adults experiencing complex pain conditions. She has mentored doctoral capstone students, was a contributing author for the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) position paper “The Role of Occupational Therapy in Pain Management,” and has presented to a variety of local, national, and international multidisciplinary audiences on current pain science and emerging and innovative evidenced-based biopsychosocial therapy interventions.

Linda graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Occupational Therapy and a Minor in Human Anatomy and has completed master level courses in Curriculum and Instructional Design.

In addition to her healthcare career, Linda has worked as a freelance author, editor, and workshop presenter and has been a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator (CDWF) of Brené Brown’s courage building and shame resilience work since 2014.

Linda is a graduate of the CU Anschutz Multidisciplinary Center on Aging’s Older Adult Research Specialist (OARS) training program and recently completed a four-year term as the president of the Occupational Therapy Association of Colorado (OTAC).

Linda’s outside interests include watercolor painting, hiking, travel, writing, music, and playing board games with family. She also has future plans to relearn her favorite childhood activities of tap dancing and baton twirling.