Josephine Ensign is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She teaches public health, health policy, and health humanities. She has been a nurse for forty years and has the lived experience of homelessness as a young adult. Her scholarship and practice as a nurse practitioner focus on trauma-informed care and health inequities for people marginalized by poverty and homelessness. Ensign is the author of Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net, Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins, and Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City. Skid Road was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2022. Her current book, Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024.