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Posted On November 20, 2020 12:54 am
Farmer Amar(t)anto Herbal Farm Coop FOCUS Amara (they/them/elle) is a queer immigrant farmer and educator. Amara focuses on restoring a sacred relationship with the land by cultivating growing and learning spaces that highlight Afro-Indigenous agricultural traditions technologies and foodways. Amara has been farming in New York City for seven years and is transitioning to working… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:47 pm
Program Director, Cultural Resilience Enterprise Community Partners FOCUS Meghan’s vision for a Culture of Health begins where people spend most of their time living and creating, in homes and communities. She supports equitable community investment by creating environments for healing-centered approaches, collaboration, lifting residents’ voices, and building social cohesion. Her vision is one where people… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:45 pm
Senior Program Officer for Embedding Equity New York Academy of Medicine FOCUS Shaneah has leveraged her capacity to innovate systems change, internal and external, to public health organizations by relentlessly approaching her work with an equitable lens through co-creating novel community engagement frameworks; building robust partnerships with city agencies; transforming local resident capacity building approaches;… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:34 pm
Health Program Officer Lloyd A. Fry Foundation FOCUS Yadira’s interest in health, and her belief that healthcare is a basic human right, began as a young girl when she served as her parents’ ad hoc advocate, interpreter, and “care coordinator.” In high school, her interest expanded to advocating for the health of her community—La Villita—when… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:20 pm
Community Educator/Artist/Facilitator Youth Empowerment Project FOCUS Classrooms serving marginalized youth in Phoenix, Ariz., should center safety, healing, justice, critical thinking, and community wisdom. By design, in Phoenix and all over the U.S., classrooms serving predominantly Black, Indigenous, Immigrant, and Refugee youth are sites of hostility and criminalization. As levels of trauma experienced by young people… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:01 pm
Founder Refugee Dream Center; Global Survivor Leadership Institute; Attuned & Inclined LLC FOCUS Omar Bah’s focus area is refugees and their support needs in integrating into American society—for self-sufficiency, for preservation of their life and cultural identities, and for addressing cultural barriers to accessing and seeking health and mental services. MORE ABOUT OMAR Omar is… View Article
Posted On March 3, 2020 9:59 pm
CEO & Founder Conscious Cultura FOCUS Imagine Mia, a senior at Calexico High School. Her parents are immigrants from Mexico; her father is imprisoned, and her mother suffers from depression. Mia is raising her two younger siblings, while holding a part-time job and applying to college. During COVID- 19, she lost an uncle to the… View Article
Posted On February 26, 2020 11:42 pm
Project Director, Just Say Yes Franklin County Health Department FOCUS Amelia Berry believes that health requires connectedness—to family and community, to one’s own valued purpose, and to equitable public goods and services that put well-being within reach for all. Amelia leads Yes Arts, a non-profit in Frankfort, Ky., that mobilizes the power of community and… View Article
Posted On July 23, 2019 2:10 am
Vice President Health Equity Spectrum Health – BHSH System FOCUS Lynn’s vision for a Culture of Health is one in which all communities, regardless of racial or ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical and cognitive disability, and neighborhood residence, are able to achieve optimal health. Her vision is one in which all… View Article
Posted On July 22, 2019 10:04 pm
Managing Director Get Rooted Consulting, LLC FOCUS Throughout American cities, Black, indigenous, and people of color communities {BIPOC} and BIPOC-led organizations navigate the intertwined challenges of food injustice, displacement, and wellbeing. As a geographer and healing arts practitioner, I help organizations and cultural workers put healing arts into everyday practice as they reimagine food and… View Article