Lynne Bamat Mijangos, RN, MSW, M.F.A., M.S.

Lynne Bamat Mijangos, RN, MSW, MFA, MS is a lecturer at Columbia University Narrative Medicine. She collaborates with chaplains, doctors, nurses, social workers, and graduate students in healthcare. For seven years she coordinated Narrative Medicine master students’ fieldwork with schools and social agencies in New York City. Presently Lynne teaches in Columbia’s asynchronous learning program for people seeking the Narrative Medicine Certificate of Professional Achievement; facilitates close reading and reflective writing at Mount Sinai Hospital; and, since the start of the pandemic, works virtually with groups from around the world. She frequently presents work with Narrative Medicine at conferences, including at WellMed-4 in Pozar Springs, Greece, 2022; COMET 19th 2021; AGPA International Conference, NYC, 2020; Psychoanalytic Writers Conference, Durham, NC, 2019. She co-chaired “Nurses and Narrative” for Nurses Week @ Columbia University, 2019 and chaired a panel at the first Narrative Medicine international conference at King’s College, London, 2013. 

Previous to her work with narrative medicine, Lynne was an emergency and recovery room nurse, a social worker with the University of Rochester’s Primary Mental Health Project, where she developed a supervision manual for paraprofessionals, and maintained a private practice working with children and adults.

She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACS), and Board member of the José Antonio Mijangos, Jr. Foundation. 

Lynne is the author of the chapbook Baby Girl Mijangos and “Listening for the Voices of Women: A Close Reading of On Being Ill” (2016). She is an editor and contributor to Narrative in Social Work Practice: The Power and Possibility of Story (2017). She is currently at work on her memoir The Easy Child.

She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACS), and Board member of the José Antonio Mijangos, Jr. Foundation. 

Lynne is the author of the chapbook Baby Girl Mijangos and “Listening for the Voices of Women: A Close Reading of On Being Ill” (2016). She is an editor and contributor to Narrative in Social Work Practice: The Power and Possibility of Story (2017). She is currently at work on her memoir The Easy Child.

She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACS), and Board member of the José Antonio Mijangos, Jr. Foundation.