With great joy and a clear-eyed view of the work ahead of us, I’m thrilled to announce a new venture, @widespreadcare!
https://t.co/cWpMAx7FHs
An introductory 🧵
@sibirth0 thank you for the work you do.♥️ I'm in Jackson tomorrow and Friday and would love to explore ways to partner and support your vision. Please let me know if that might be possible!
When people say they want to "use" community health workers...that's usually exactly what they mean.
Community health worker, & all carers, are *people,* not infrastructure. @joshnesbit beautifully articulates the implications of this profound fact👇
Why it is time to move beyond "care as infrastructure" and organize around care as the point. https://t.co/ZQ0fQPeuir
Wish I could be under a tree discussing this with @jonshaffer@DrMBallard @JoiaMukherjee @JillGW@i_love_disease@victorroy and others.
In New Jersey this week, working alongside doulas providing birth, postpartum, and loss support. These caregivers and community leaders show us what a new social order could look like, and we can do so much more to support them.
Extractive, gatekeeping entities stand in the way of community health and love.
Our relations are our social universe’s dark matter.
Why we must move beyond labor marketplaces and toward communities of care: https://t.co/K417bWDLp2
Who has the most at stake in a system of care? Offering reflections on power and stake, organizing, and paths we can travel together:
https://t.co/mM7tzWgkd7
Excited to share @Medic's news! Very proud of the board's work throughout this search.
I am also immensely grateful to Jacqueline Edwards for stewarding and leading as interim CEO.
We're thrilled to announce Medic's new CEO, Dr. Krishna Jafa! ⭐
A physician, epidemiologist, and public health executive, Krishna’s leadership comes at a transformational moment for both Medic and the #CommunityHealthToolkit. Meet Krishna here. ➡️ https://t.co/ItULEDfZlK
Thinking about the prevalence of moral dilemma dumping and the moral injury that follows. We ask people with the least economic power – and the most at stake – to figure out how to do what’s right in an unjust overall structure.
"Governance is not really separate from the landscape because that's patterned on the landscape, patterned on the ecosystem and the complex systems... and the spirit that drives that."
Indigenous Economics with Tyson Yunkaporta
https://t.co/Y2ECLtBD9n
With great joy and a clear-eyed view of the work ahead of us, I’m thrilled to announce a new venture, @widespreadcare!
https://t.co/cWpMAx7FHs
An introductory 🧵
We are starting by co-creating tools with doulas protecting the well-being of families. This recent story from CA highlights the opportunities and challenges facing doulas and their communities: https://t.co/EhSe2Kiyt6