Woke WOC Docs

Bernadette Lim, Nicole Carvajal, & Ivie Tokunboh
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Woke WOC Docs

We are Woke WOC Docs, a podcast about the lives of womxn of color in medicine/health justice, including their unique experiences, viewpoints, and struggles in education, research, and practice. We want to reveal the insights we as womxn of color uniquely have on how medicine can transform to end health injustices and be a better institution of health, well-being, and healing. Subscribe to us on SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify or our mailing list: http://bit.ly/subscribewokewocdocs

  1. On foregoing residency after medical school to lead Freedom Community Clinic: A convo w/ Bernie Lim

    12/27/2021

    On foregoing residency after medical school to lead Freedom Community Clinic: A convo w/ Bernie Lim

    It's been a minute since we published an episode! In this episode, we have an intimate conversation with Bernie about her decision to not go to residency after medical school to lead the Freedom Community Clinic. Facilitated by Nicole and questions from the audience, Bernie talks more about her journey of coming to that decision while in medical school, her thoughts on the limitations of the medical system and changing from within, and why we need to imagine and create new systems like the Freedom Community Clinic to provide the healing and care that our communities deserve. 4:00 An overview of Bernie's journey to not go to residency and lead Freedom Community Clinic in Oakland 20:00 On the emotional journey and hardship of deciding to not go to residency 24:00 On Bernie's thoughts and pushback on being our "ancestors' wildest dreams" 26:30 On what Bernie will use her MD for/how medical school was valuable for her life journey 28:50 On why we deserve to lead and create our own systems when the majority of hospital CEOs don't even have MDs lol 29:50 On why Bernie cannot be part of DEI recruitment efforts for medical school 35:00 Conversation between Nicole and Bernie on what is healing; influential books, people, habits; and why institutions don't wanna see you rested and healed 45:30 On building community relationships and Freedom Community Clinic while in medical school 50:20 On patient relationships at Freedom Community Clinic vs. the hospital 51:20 How leading Freedom Community Clinic has changed Bernie's perception of healing and community 53:40 Nicole and Bernie's advice on pursuing creativity while in medicine 56:30 Bernie's future plans and dreams 1:00:32 Bernie's thoughts on self-mentorship 1:05:00 Q&A on mentors outside of medicine, why we cannot let these institutions silence us, and tapping into our aliveness Recorded on Sept 30, 2021

    1h 12m
  2. The Craziness That Was 2020: Reflections and Lessons Learned

    01/05/2021

    The Craziness That Was 2020: Reflections and Lessons Learned

    2020 was a hot mess. Phew. Y'all didn't need us to say it. Together, we talk more together about the lessons we learned from our third year of medical school/research year and our wellness strategies in the midst of this crazy year while working in the hospital daily and doing research. We delve deeper into what surprised us about the field of medicine, how we've been able to take care of patients through drawing on our unique life experiences/backgrounds/strengths, and how we've maintained a sense of groundedness and community in the midst of so much individual and collective trauma. Lots to look forward to in 2021 and we're so thankful to y'all for being on this journey with us! Stay woke y'all.

    1h 1m
  3. Anti-Racism Series Ep 3: Transforming Trauma into Healing for BlPOC Communities with Chanel Durley

    10/13/2020

    Anti-Racism Series Ep 3: Transforming Trauma into Healing for BlPOC Communities with Chanel Durley

    We are so excited to interview beloved community healer and warrior Chanel Durley, founder of 33rd and RiSING, a wellness space that provides healing for Black, Indigenous, and POC communities in the Bay Area and beyond. In this episode, we talk about Chanel’s experiences with Crohn’s in which she experienced racism and deep injustice and inequity in multiple encounters and 11 hospitalizations in the medical system. We also converse more about the toxicity of grind mentality and its roots in trauma and how her experiences as an intuitive healer came into her founding of 33rd & RiSING. Takeaways we love: -Who told us to stop believing in the wisdom of our bodies? -Going into doctor’s visits as interviews and seeing yourself as deserving of building your healthcare team. “These are my goals; this is the life I want to live: Are you with me?” -“You don’t validate me. I validate me.” -How are you unwinding? How are you unplugging from the matrix? For more info about Chanel and 33rd & RiSING: https://www.33rising.com/ https://www.instagram.com/33rdandrising/

    1h 15m
  4. Anti-Racism Series Ep 2: Demanding Police Free Schools in Oakland with Black Organizing Project

    09/07/2020

    Anti-Racism Series Ep 2: Demanding Police Free Schools in Oakland with Black Organizing Project

    We are hellaaaaaa hype to talk with Black Organizing Project, the amazing Black member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community-building in Oakland, California. The Black Organizing Project (BOP) led the victory for Oakland to implement police-free schools in June 2020, a resolution that calls for moving the safety program to the equity/behavioral health departments and investing more money in mental health and special education staff, plus restorative justice programs. Together, we talk about the mission of BOP and why policing in schools significantly affects the emotional, mental, and physical health of Black students. We hear more about their amazing nearly decade long advocacy for police-free schools in Oakland and their recent victories with The People’s Plan, Black Sanctuary Pledge, and the George Floyd Resolution. In addition, we talk more about how their visions for a police-free world is rooted in personal and collective transformation. We celebrate with BOP on dissolving an entire police department in Oakland public schools as an all Black organization! Support them y'all and uplift their work!!! Police do not equal safety and GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING WORKS! Black Organizing Project: http://blackorganizingproject.org/ KQED News “After Abolishing School Police, Oakland Wants to Reimagine Safety in Education”: https://www.kqed.org/news/11826192/after-abolishing-school-police-oakland-wants-to-reimagine-safety-in-education Jasmine Williams is the Development and Communication Manager at Black Organizing Project. She hopes to use her writing to shift the negative narrative of Black people repeated in mainstream media and to ensure that Black people have a platform to uplift their voices and experiences. She is excited about reaffirming and celebrating the beauty of Blackness with BOP through storytelling, community building and organizing. Des Mims is a Mother, Community Activist & Member of Black Organizing Projects Communication team, who has dedicated herself to the work of abolishing school police to disrupt the school to prison pipeline and provide students and community with transformative justice.

    1h 9m
  5. Anti-Racism Series Ep 1: Demanding an Anti-Racist Medicine with Noor Chadha & Aminta Kouyate

    08/11/2020

    Anti-Racism Series Ep 1: Demanding an Anti-Racist Medicine with Noor Chadha & Aminta Kouyate

    For this episode, we are hella excited to interview our beautiful friends Noor Chadha and Aminta Kouyate, medical and graduate students at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program and founding team members of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine. Together, we talk more with Noor and Aminta about their work demanding and advocating for an anti-racist medicine through their research and student activist efforts. We talk with Noor and Bernie about their recent public launch of their inaugural "Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice" (co-authored by Noor, Bernie, Maddy Kane, and Brenly Rowland). We also talk with Aminta about leading a rally and protest through the White Coats 4 Black Lives (WC4BL) Berkeley chapter on demanding that racism be recognized as a public health issue. In addition, we learn more about their work being part of the founding team of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine and their philosophy on being a student/community activist alongside the many responsibilities that come with being a student and human! Read the report at the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine website: www.instituteforhealingandjustice.org WC4BL Berkeley on Instagram: @wc4bl_berkeley Noor Chadha is a 2nd year med student at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program who strives to integrate compassion, justice, and joy throughout her life and medical career. She is a co-author of Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice. Her master's work focuses on youth civic engagement and health. Noor identifies as Sikh, as Punjabi American, as a daughter of Indian immigrants, as a sister, and as a dancer - she performed competitive Bhangra for several years, and who knows, maybe you'll see her make a comeback soon! Aminta Kouyate is a proud Bay native. Born in Oakland, she is dedicated to eradicating the systems of oppression that create the health disparities for marginalized communities. As a medical student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical program, her research is focused on building an anti-racist medical education curriculum for healthcare providers. She is a reader, a writer, a kitchen magic maker, and a deep believer in laughter and joy. Aminta is dedicated to working towards a fundamental change in the way we practice medicine. She envisions leaving behind a system that separates healing from health and cultivating a new practice learning from community wisdom to center healing, happiness, rest, and justice for all people. She is one of the founding members of the White Coats for Black Lives Chapter at UC Berkeley, a Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice collaborator, a student of the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US), and most importantly she is a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a co-conspirator to many beloved people.

    1 hr
  6. S3Ep4: Integrating Ancestral, Indigenous, and Holistic Healing with the Freedom Community Clinic

    05/27/2020

    S3Ep4: Integrating Ancestral, Indigenous, and Holistic Healing with the Freedom Community Clinic

    Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing the organizing team of the Freedom Community Clinic. Founded in 2019, the Freedom Community Clinic provides community-centered, whole-person healing combining the strengths of Western medicine and ancestral and indigenous healing to the Bay Area. All services are for free and sliding scale. We are so excited to talk hear more about the origins of the Freedom Community Clinic and how Bernie, Tiffany, Sabrina, Krista, and Alexis have worked together as womxn of color healers to combine their professional/personal strengths, healing journeys, and work to bring community-centered, whole-person care directly to places and spaces where communities gather. Through this conversation, we will learn about how Western medicine must integrate its strengths with the wisdom of acupuncture, health education, Reiki, yoga, and herbal medicine. We are especially interested in hearing more about how their healing modalities provide a safe space for communities alongside the medical community. For more about the Freedom Community Clinic, visit their website at: freedomcommunityclinic.org.

    58 min
  7. S3Ep3: Food, Immigrant Justice, and BBQ Without Borders with Dr. Vibha Gupta

    04/29/2020

    S3Ep3: Food, Immigrant Justice, and BBQ Without Borders with Dr. Vibha Gupta

    In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Vibha Gupta, an emergency medicine doc at Kaiser Oakland and Richmond, and the founder of the No Immigrants No spice non profit. Vibha is second-generation daughter of Indian immigrants, born, bred and raised in the Midwest, and is now firmly transplanted in the Bay Area. As an emergency room doctor by day, Vibha is inspired by the humanity she sees on a daily basis. Together, we talk about Vibha’s amazing non-profit No Immigrants No Spice (NINS), whose mission is to flip the narrative on immigration and also support pro immigrant NGOs through merch, storytelling, and their inaugural event BBQs without Borders. She started NINS as a way to positively channel her frustration and create something that combines her passion for food, culture and people. Her hope is that NINS can be something that is fun, transcendent, educational and above all helpful. More about NINS: https://noimmigrantsnospice.org/ https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Let-s-look-at-immigrants-contributions-to-14465127.php

    41 min
  8. S3Ep2: Intergenerational Social Justice Activism in Medicine with Dr. Alicia Fernández

    03/21/2020

    S3Ep2: Intergenerational Social Justice Activism in Medicine with Dr. Alicia Fernández

    We are wishing everyone lots of love during this time. If you're in the Bay Area, the Freedom Community Clinic created a community mass resource sheet with up-to-date health information on COVID-19 at tinyurl.com/bayareacovid19help. We have the enormous privilege and excitement to talk with Dr. Alicia Fernández, a professor of Medicine, general internist at San Francisco General Hospital and the Director of UCSF Latinx Center for Excellence. In addition, Alicia does research on increasing language concordance between patients and physicians to improve patient care and health outcomes among many other topics. In this episode, we talk with Alicia more about her journey into and through medicine, including her immigration journey from Argentina to the United States at age 15, transitioning from political activism to health justice in the heart of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to where she is now-- a clinician, professor, mentor, and advocate for underrepresented and marginalized communities. All three of us have been incredibly grateful to Alicia for creating amazing programs for minority students here at UCSF (PROF-PATH and ALAS) that help us navigate academic medicine in ways that expand knowledge and mentorship on how to succeed and more fully show up as our true, authentic selves. Bio: Alicia Fernández, MD is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Dr. Fernández has expertise in health and health care disparities, with a strong focus on diabetes, Latinx health, immigrant health, and language barriers. In addition to being the Director of the LCOE, she is also the co-director of two LCOE programs: FUEGO and PROF-PATH. She also serves as a faculty mentor for the UCSF ALAS program.

    56 min
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    We are Woke WOC Docs, a podcast about the lives of womxn of color in medicine/health justice, including their unique experiences, viewpoints, and struggles in education, research, and practice. We want to reveal the insights we as womxn of color uniquely have on how medicine can transform to end health injustices and be a better institution of health, well-being, and healing. Subscribe to us on SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify or our mailing list: http://bit.ly/subscribewokewocdocs

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    • Creator
      Bernadette Lim, Nicole Carvajal, & Ivie Tokunboh
    • Years Active
      2018 - 2021
    • Episodes
      29
    • Rating
      Explicit
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