PGY-1 @washuem | @icahnmountsinai & @spelmancollege Grad | Previous @cdcgov Fellow
Leadership + equity + community building are my jams. My views only.
Sixty years ago, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom showed us what's possible when ordinary people come together to push for change. Now it’s up to all of us to protect and build on that progress, and create a better future for generations to come.
Phenomenal talk today by @Ashlea_Danielle on the WHY & the HOW of advancing equity within medicine at @WUSTL_EM’s Larry Lewis Symposium.
“As long as I know I’m doing right by people, I choose to speak up. I’ve gotten comfortable with making other people uncomfortable.”
Grateful to the @medgradwishlist platform that supports the bridge between med school & residency. An important issue that institutions + residency programs should be talking about, especially for #firstgen students who greatly benefit from sponsorship. https://t.co/HjinxLkPuj
Couldn't have done any of it without the support and PRESSURE applied by so many, including you! Activism is gorgeous, but it's even more phenomenal when it is collaborative.
Wanna s/o my school's SNMA @tm_harrell (President) & many others who almost 1yr ago wrote a MASSIVE doc outlining transformational anti-racist changes for @IcahnMountSinai@MountSinaiNYC . 1yr later that letter is DRIVING the changes at my school. Student activism is gorgeous 💕
Wanna s/o my school's SNMA @tm_harrell (President) & many others who almost 1yr ago wrote a MASSIVE doc outlining transformational anti-racist changes for @IcahnMountSinai@MountSinaiNYC . 1yr later that letter is DRIVING the changes at my school. Student activism is gorgeous 💕
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Thank you @CarinaSeah@porozcos @StaciLeisman for showing us how advocacy can change our entire health system in months.
One fewer example of race-based medicine here, effective today!
After finishing a chat with Black women's health champion, Dr. Fleda Mask Jackson, I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the giants that have laid the foundation for me to do the work that I am so passionate about. Soaking up all of her gems. Did I mention she's a Spelman alumna? 😍
My least favorite email I received so far today was from a colleague (at another medical school) linking to an article co-written with their parent (a professor themselves). When curiosity got the best of me, I found this wasn't the first time they've published together. (1/X)
Futures in Science and Medicine 101: Underrepresented in Science and Medicine Chat with Current Latinx Medical Students @Northeast_LMSA Share widely & RSVP here for 11/11 5PM EST https://t.co/44V5VHhuvx
After missing class today, I received this email from my small group preceptor who is also a [bomb] Black woman in medicine. I feel seen, validated, and cared for. Sometimes it is as simple as pressing send on that email.
🔥 This thread on gun violence. Communities of color need resources that address the many opportunities that were stripped from them. Your perspective is valued and needed in the field of medicine. .. come on and graduate 😊 #innercity#gunviolence#mysoror
my video was off for the whole meeting until I posted this. I decided to turn my video on and show them my puffy red eyes & tears and let them feel my broken heart. Anti-Black racism is not abstract/ conceptual. It's real and it's killing ALL OF US.
To survive in these communities that have been so under-resourced, overlooked, and belittled is one of the deepest acts of political warfare to exist. Growing up in the *hood* taught me everything I know about life: persistence is a tool of resistance. Keep going, no matter what.
Where I'm from, all of my friends (& myself) have either been directly affected by or know someone who was killed by gun violence. It is not a "flaw" fueled by "Black inadequacy." It's driven by a system designed to strip generations of people from opportunity & economic success.
Black men who participate in gun crimes were once young Black boys who were repeatedly told "they'd never make it out [of poverty]" unless they became rappers or professional athletes. We can't discuss guns in Black communities without also talking about disparities in education.