Courtney Sexton

Dr. Courtney Sexton earned her MFA in nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College and her PhD from The George Washington University. She is an artist, dog scientist, and the Co-founder/Board Chair of DC-based nonprofit literary arts organization, The Inner Loop. In addition to her leadership role at The Inner Loop, Courtney is a professor in the Medical Humanities at Georgetown University and a postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Tech, where her research explores human-animal relationships and One Health. She is an accomplished writer and curator with more than 15 years of experience in advocacy, outreach, and community building. Courtney works with a diverse cadre of humans, animals, institutions, agencies, and organizations, and has been published widely in both academic journals and outlets such as Science, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Slate, District Fray, The Bark , Garden & Gun, Juxtaprose, SAGE, and The Fourth River. She is a Virginia Tech Research & Innovation Scholar (2024), Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute Fellow (2022), AAAS Mass Media Fellow (2020), and DCCAH Arts & Humanities Fellow (2018; 2022; 2025).