The Visible Voices

Maria Uloko and Gina Northington The Pelvic Floor and Female Sexual Health

During her residency at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Maria Uloko launched her podcast, “Battle Cry,” as “a love letter” to minorities pursuing careers in STEM.Maria Uloko is a urologist, Inclusive Sexual Medicine, prosthetic/reconstruction, transgender health and Male Infertility Fellow at San Diego Sexual Medicine. Interested in making medicine progressive and innovative. For the 2020-2021 year she completed a fellowship in male and female sexual dysfunction, infertility and prosthetic urology in San Diego under the guidance of Irwin Goldstein, MD, Director of Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital Medical Center and founding editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Dr. Martin Bastuba, a urologic reproductive specialist, and Dr. Jordan Spiegel, a reconstructive urologist at Scripps hospital in La Jolla California. Maria completed her internship in general surgery and residency in urology at the University of Minnesota. Follow Maria on TwitterIn 2011, Dr. Gina Northington joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine. She is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS) in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She is also Chief of Clinical service for OB/GYN at Emory University Hospital. Gina's clinical areas of interest include geriatric gynecology, neuromodulation, pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, and overactive bladder. She currently participates in several clinical trials and translational research projects investigating mechanisms of female pelvic floor disorders. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Dr. Northington was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania where she also completed her fellowship training. In addition to her administrative positions at Emory, Gina is also fellowship program director for FPMRS at Emory and was responsible for Emory receiving ACGME Accreditation for the Fellowship program the first year it was offered by the ACGME in 2013.  Follow Gina on Twitter

Lash Nolen and Alister Martin are Impacting Healthcare

LaShyra “Lash” Nolen is a second-year student at Harvard Medical School where she is serving as student council president of her class. She is the first documented black woman to hold this leadership position. She is a published author and fervent advocate for social justice with commentary published in the Boston Globe, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and HuffPost. Lash is a Foster Scholar in Health Policy, Advocacy, and Media at the MGH Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation and a co-host for the Clinical Problem Solvers Anti-Racism in Medicine podcast. Most recently she founded https://www.wegotusproject.org/, a grassroots community empowerment project with the goal of bringing vaccine education and access to Black communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work has earned her the honor of becoming the 2020 National Minority Quality Forum’s youngest “40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health”, named a “2020 Young Futurist” by The Root Magazine, and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association's Racial Justice in Medicine Award.  Follow Lash on Twitter @LashNolenAlister Martin MD MPP is faculty at the MGH Center for Social Justice and Health Equity  at Harvard  Medical School and Founder of Get Waivered, a campaign aimed at transforming emergency departments nationwide into the front door for recovery for patients with opioid addiction. This work serves as a  national model at the NIH with several state partnerships including Get Waivered Texas and Get Waivered Nebraska. Alister trained at Harvard after working in state health policy and after getting an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School  of Government where he was a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. In 2013, he accepted a position  as a Health Policy Aide to Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont given that state's ongoing transition to a single payer system at the time. Over the subsequent year, he led a team in the Governor’s office responsible for building the communications plan for Vermont’s proposed single payer plan called Green Mountain Care.  Alister previously served as Chief Resident at MGH/Brigham Hospital. He now leverages his background in politics, healthcare policy, and the field of behavioral economics to use the ED as a place to build programs that serve the needs of vulnerable patients. He leads a program which offers patients who are unregistered voters the opportunity to register to vote through a program called VotER.  Follow Alister on Twitter @AlisterFMartin

Erin Peavey and Jennifer Roberts on Health Design and the Built Environment

Impact of the Build Environment on Health (CDC)Erin K. Peavey is a believer in the power of place to heal, connect, and serve vulnerable people — from hospital patients and staff, to people struggling with social isolation and mental health challenges. In her leadership role at HKS, she helps integrate research and practice to advance the creation and communication of knowledge across the firm. Erin served as research chair on the board of trustees on the Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation for close to a decade, and was adjunct faculty at The Pratt Institute and New York School of Interior Design. She is an industry scholar with the Cornell Institute for Health Futures and is a widely-sought after author, speaker and facilitator. Her podcast, Shared Space, explores how architecture and design can help us live healthier, happier and more connected lives.  Podcast Host @ Shared Space Erin on Twitter: @erin_peaveyEin on Linkedin Erin K PeaveyErin's Website: https://www.erinpeavey.comErin on WKRA March 2021: After Social Distancing, This Architect Is Hoping for A 'Renaissance of Connection'Erin in Psychology Today May 2021: Is your Environment Making You LonelyJennifer D. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD).  Dr. Roberts is also the Founder and Director of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of NatureRx@UMD, an initiative that emphasizes the natural environmental benefits interspersed throughout and around the UMD campus.  Her scholarship focuses on the impact of built, social, and natural environments, including the institutional and structural inequities of these environments, on the public health outcomes of marginalized communities. Presently, Dr. Roberts’ is leading the Purple Line Light Rail Impact on Neighborhood, Health and Transit (PLIGHT) Study in order to investigate changes in light rail use, active transportation, overall physical activity, obesity and related comorbidities among Prince George’s County, Maryland residents.  She is also examining the risk of transit-induced gentrification related to this light rail train through funding she was awarded with her JPB Environmental Health Fellowship. Follow Jen on her Website JenniferDRoberts website Twitter @ActiveRoberts Twitter, LinkedIn Jennifer D. Roberts LinkedInJen on Episode 172 Therapy for Black Girls podcast September 2020 Plant Parenthood Is More Than a TrendJen on NPR April 2021:  Closing the Gap on Transportation Walking or Biking while Black can be Deadly

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Essen Bakery founder Tova Du Plessis and Chopped Sweets Winner Abby Dahan

From the Visible Voices podcast archives, Tova du Plessis of Essen Bakery and Abby Dahan of the Bake School join to discuss Philadelphia award winning baking. 

Jahan Mantin of Project Inkblot and Steven Christian talk Design and Equity Design

Jahan Mantin is the co-founder of Project Inkblot, a consultancy that specializes in design education and partners with companies on adopting models and tools that supporting equitable products, services, content, and experiences. Jahan began her career in advertising and marketing at Time Out New York and later as the Associate Editor for Beyond Race Magazine. Jahan earned a B.A. in Communications and Culture from Clark University and reived the Kate Spade and Company Fellowship at the New Museum Incubator.  "I'm a designer and futurist, partnering with companies to build equitable products/services using Design for Diversity™ D4D.  Design for Diversity™ helps illuminate blind spots around cultural and racial biases within your team’s design processes, before they are embedded into the end product.  As the co-founder of Project Inkblot, our team has developed a framework to guiding how we design, create and build services, content etc. to not just guardrail against racial biases – but to center the voices, leadership and vision of those most impacted within our design process. I'm a relationship builder, a natural storyteller (before "storytelling" was a buzzword), connector, curator and community builder." Follow Project Inkblot on TwitterSteven Christian started his creative journey as a student-athlete. He got injured so he began to explore design. This path has led him into the augmented reality space where he empowers Black communities to express themselves through creativity, art, and technology. Born and raised in Sacramento, CA, Steven Christian grew up playing sports. He earned a football scholarship at the University of Hawaii. During his college career, he injured his hips and had to get bilateral hip reconstructive surgery. It was then that he began to explore art, comics, and development for mobile devices. It became an avenue of self-expression as well as therapy. He then received his Master of Arts from Oregon State where he focused on visual representation of social issues through an interdisciplinary lens: primarily animation and illustration. This path has led him into the augmented reality space where he is empowering Black communities to express themselves through creativity, art, and technology, and is now admitted to Medical School.  At Iltopia Studios, he tells stories about the Black experience in America using art and technology. His goal is to educate, empower, and entertain through immersive content creation.He founded Iltopia Studios as a creative studio to scale what he does into a platform that inspires and empowers people from his community to push beyond what is expected of them. Follow Steven on Twitter

Author Tae Keller When you Trap a Tiger with Jason Han

Tae Keller is an American children's book author.  She is the award-winning author of The Science of Breakable Things and When You Trap a Tiger. When You Trap a Tiger, won the 2021 American Library Association John Newbery Medal. The book tells the story of Lily and her relationship with her aging and ill Korean grandmother, wrapped around the Korean folktales her grandmother tells her at bedtime. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal–return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni’s health–Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice…and the courage to face a tiger. Follow Tae on twitterTae's mother is award winner author Nora Okja Keller. Her first novel Comfort Woman won the American Book Award in 1998 and the 1999 Elliot Cades Award. Previously, in 1995, Keller won the Pushcart Prize for a short story, "Mother-Tongue", which became the second chapter of Comfort Woman. In 2003, she won the Hawai'i Award for Literature.Jason Han MD is integrated cardiac surgery resident. He received his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience at Columbia University and received his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine. He is a writer for the healthcare section of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and publishes on Medium. He is interested in heart failure, and clinical ethics and plans to pursue a career in academic cardiac surgery. Follow Jason on Twitter

Kaleena Sales and Ellen Lupton Extra Bold Graphic Designers

EXTRA BOLD is a feminist inclusive anti-racist nonbinary field guide for graphic designers. In this episode I am joined two fo the authors of this May 2021 release. Kaleena Sales  (she/her) is the Interim Chair  and an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design  in the Department of Art & Design at Tennessee State University. She is a writer, illustrator, and graphic design educator at Tennessee State University, an Historically Black College and University in Nashville, TN. Her research focuses on Black culture and aesthetics, and her recent illustration work has been selected for inclusion in the 2021 Communication Arts Illustration Annual. Through her service on AIGA's Design Educators Community Steering Committee, Kaleena has advocated for a more inclusive view of design history through her Beyond the Bauhaus writing series. She also serves as Director of Diversity and Inclusion for AIGA Nashville. Twitter: @kaleena_salesEllen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, critic. She is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She has authored numerous books on design processes: Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen, Design Is Storytelling, Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. In 2017, she delivered a TEDxMidAtlantic talk Museums should activate multiple senses, not just the eyeball. Ellen is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Twitter: @ellenLupton

Carmelle Elie and Ashley Shreves on Palliative Care Medicine and Quality Living

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort alwaysHospice care is compassionate comfort care (as opposed to curative care) for people facing a terminal illness with a prognosis of six months or less, based on their physician’s estimate if the disease runs its course as expected. Palliative care is compassionate comfort care that provides relief from the symptoms and physical and mental stress of a serious or life-limiting illness. Palliative care can be pursued at diagnosis, during curative treatment and follow-up, and at the end of life.Marie-Carmelle Elie, M.D., has been named chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Carmelle obtained her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and her medical degree from the State University of New York in Brooklyn with a distinction in research. Since then, she has continued to identify herself as a scholar and clinical investigator. Following her emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, she completed a Critical Care/Trauma Fellowship at the R. Adam Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland. She is triple board-certified in emergency medicine, critical care, as well as hospice and palliative care medicine.Dr. Ashley Shreves earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Chemistry from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. She went on to receive a doctor of Medicine degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine located in New Orleans, LA.  Ashley completed a residency in Emergency Medicine with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.  She then completed a Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Ashley Shreves is board-certified in emergency medicine and palliative care and splits her clinical time between the two specialties.

Shirlene Obuobi and Ian Williams: Graphic Medicine Pioneers

Graphic Medicine refers to the use of graphic novels, comics, and visual storytelling in medical education, patient care, and other applications related to healthcare and the life sciences.  Dr. Shirlene Obuobi is a third year internal medicine resident, rising Cardiology fellow, and creator of the graphic medicine platform, "ShirlyWhirldMD." ShirlyWhirlMD has functioned as a vehicle of self expression during a time of professional growth, as well as a place to critique and discuss elements of medical culture and current events within healthcare.  Follow her on twitter. Website https://shirlywhirlmd.comDr Ian Williams is a comics artist, writer and doctor who lives in Brighton, UK. His graphic novel, The Bad Doctor, was published in 2014 and followed up in 2019 by The Lady Doctor. He is working on his third, for the same publishers, provisionally entitled The Sick Doctor, which will be published in 2022. He studied Fine Art after medical school and then became involved in the Medical Humanities movement. He named the area of study called Graphic Medicine, building the eponymous website in 2007, which he currently co-edits. He is Founder of the not-for-profit Graphic Medicine International Cooperative and co-author of the Eisner-nominated Graphic Medicine Manifesto. Between May 2015 and January 2017 he drew a weekly comic strip, Sick Notes, for The Guardian. He recently made an animation with Matilda Tristram for The Care Under Pressure project from Exeter University. He has spoken at numerous medical humanities, comic art and literary events.Ian is represented by Kirsty McLachlan of Morgan Green Creatives Follow Ian on twitter Website https://myriadeditions.com/creator/ian-williams/