Office of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Updates
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Dear Colleagues,
As we wrap up the semester, we are appreciative of your efforts at this time to connect with us and engage as a community. Our newsletter intends to share resources and upcoming opportunities for us to continue advancing equity and care. We'd like to recognize the start of Ramadan which began on Thursday, April 23 and ends on Saturday, May 23 for those who celebrate.
We'd also like to thank the Student Government Association, Coalition for Occupational Therapy Advocates for Diversity (COTAD) and our panelists for a successful Virtual Health Professions Career Fair. There were 50 undergraduate attendees. We invited students to attend this panel with the hopes of establishing a virtual mentoring program on the health professions in the future. If you're interested in serving as a mentor, please reach out to Alejandra Luna at
aluna@mghihp.edu
. If you have any questions about our programs or ideas for future collaborations please
email us
.
Sincerely,
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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4/29, 7pm EST:
Living through a Pandemic: Understanding, Coping, and Finding Meaning - Webinar Registration
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During this webinar, professionals with experience in education and cross-cultural mental health will provide an overview of common stressors affecting high school and college students and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially Asian American and international students. They will also share helpful coping strategies that can be utilized by students, parents, educators, and institutions to promote mental health and resilience. This webinar will feature the following panelists:
Justin Chen, MD, MPH; Executive Director, MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Ying Wang MD, owner, Bucks Psychiatry, an integrative psychiatric care clinic in Pennsylvania. Columnist at Letters To Strangers
Nora Yasumura, MSW, Class Dean at the Hotchkiss School, Diversity Consultant, and former Pan Asian Advisor at Dartmouth College
RSVP HERE
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5/5, 12pm-1pm EST: "
Ballin' On A Budget"
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Dr. Taharee Jackson is a lifelong money-saver, super couponer, thrift shopper, and trash-to-treasure interior designer. As the founder of Chic Cents Design, this “Frugal Fannie” is especially adept at transforming items from Craigslist FreeStuff, dumpster dives, and curbside throwaways into passably high-end décor. Throughout her schooling and career, Dr. Jackson was known as “Supershopaholic #1” and led discount shopping tours of Boston and Cambridge as both an undergraduate and graduate student at Harvard. Long known for her ability to “make something out of nothing,” Dr. Jackson continues to speak, teach, and maintain a video diary of how other working poor professionals and students can dress, design, and live for less.
Dr. Taharee will share examples of how she has been able to keep track of her spending and save money (including salary negotiation) as well as engage attendees in sharing their money-saving tips.
RSVP HERE
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5/12 & 5/19 12pm-1pm EST: Equity Series
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5/12: Whiteness
On Feb. 10, Robin DiAngelo, PhD, author of The New York Times bestseller, “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism,” spoke to MGH staff about Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis. We continue the conversation with a focus on White anti-racist identity development. This community conversation is led by Corine Rosenberg, 2019-2020 Equity and Inclusion Fellow and M.Ed. Candidate, Arts in Education Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. We will provide an opportunity for participants to think about how Whiteness continues to operate and shape the US landscape and within ourselves. Amid the increased visibility of interpersonal, institutional and cultural racism, exposed by COVID-19, participants will reflect on accountability, identity, and healing. We will collaboratively think through how to respond to racism in society and in ourselves as a part of the ongoing fight for racial justice.
5/19: Embodied Mindfulness and Self-Care
We are all adapting to a new context as we work from home or work differently, shelter in place, and process what we are experiencing personally and collectively. Join us to explore how we can care for ourselves in the midst of this pandemic. We recognize self-care as a radical act amid the dominant norms of productivity and center the knowledge that our bodies and experiences can lend to the process of healing and restoration. We will discuss and explore embodied mindfulness, expressive arts, and the importance of an intersectional lens as we care for ourselves and our communities.
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Volunteer Power, Privilege, and Positionally (PPP) Facilitators Needed
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PPP is a program intended to create a space for learning, discussion, and reflection on Power, Privilege, Positionality and their connections to the health professions for incoming students. Faculty and staff are welcome and strongly encouraged to attend the event. This program is usually a five hour in person experience during Orientation which we are adapting to be held virtually this year. We are currently in need of Student, Faculty, and Staff volunteers to facilitate discussions for the PPP event. To learn more about PPP and the facilitator role, please visit:
https://www.mghihp.edu/ppp.
To volunteer, please email
:
Kmartinez@mghihp.edu
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To view a recording of our "Let's Talk about Hip-Hop" event led by Dr. Daren Graves, you can
view it here
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4/30 My Ethnicity Is Not A Virus Event:
The Pan-Asian Coalition For Education of Harvard Graduate School of Education hosts a community discussion on how current rhetoric is unveiling the underlying anti-Asian racism that has always existed in the United States, and what Asian Americans experiencing or non-Asians witnessing discrimination can do to change the current narrative in the time of COVID-19.
RSVP HERE
Free Financial Counseling:
For those affiliated with MGH IHP,
GreenPath financial counseling
is available if you would like expert advice on debt counseling, debt management, credit report review or financial education.
Starting April 20, 2020, consumers now have the ability to check their credit reports weekly for free through April 2021 via
AnnualCreditReport.com
. Previously, free reports were only available once every 12 months.
The MA Legislature recently passed Bill
H.4672
which is an an act addressing COVID-19 data collection and disparities in treatment
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The results of the 2020 Census will help determine how hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding flow into communities every year for the next decade. That funding shapes many different aspects of every community, no matter the size, no matter the location. Take a moment
to respond
to the census or share with others today.
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Advancing Care For a Diverse Society
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