Office of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Updates
Dear Colleagues,

May is Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. One way you can learn more about APA history, is to join WGBH's virtual celebration which begins Monday, 5/4 at 7pm.

We also have programming updates including an opportunity for MGH IHP students to earn $100 for facilitating on-line discussions on Power, Privilege, and Positionality with incoming students. If you have any questions about our programs or ideas for future collaborations please email us .

Sincerely,
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
5/5, 12pm-1pm EST: " Ballin' On A Budget"
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
5/6, 12pm-1pm EST: Predictable Parenting for Unpredictable Times
This webinar will focus on how COVID-19 is impacting student mental health and well-being, and how parents can promote the success and resilience of children and teens under such unusual and uncertain circumstances. During this webinar, professionals with experience in education, child and adolescent development, and mental health will discuss parenting practices and tools that can help to support the well-being of Asian and Asian American students through these unpredictable times. This session is appropriate for parents of school-age children, middle/high school students, and college students. RSVP HERE

Webinar #4: The Challenges International Students Face During COVID-19 and How Parents Can Be Supportive (Mandarin session)
疫情下留学生们正在经历什么？父母该如何支持帮助他们? (中文专场）

Sat, May 9, 9:00-10:30pm EDT
Registration link to come
This session will be geared toward families of Chinese international students studying in the U.S. Full description and speaker list to come.

You can view recordings of past webinars in this series and additional resources HERE.

5/12, 1pm-2pm EST: Food Insecurity Innovation in Greater Boston
Tariana V. Little, DrPH, a public health professional and social entrepreneur, will present on her doctoral thesis focused on food security innovation in Greater Boston. One in 10 people in Massachusetts is struggling to eat normally, and without needed supports, the results are costly: chronic disease, higher health care use, and social vulnerabilities. This talk will focus on gaps and opportunities in service delivery and financing among healthcare, social service, and health insurance organizations in Greater Boston. Attendees will learn about how some of these organizations are navigating the healthcare redesign of Accountable Care Organizations, which emphasizes population health through holistic care and community partnerships addressing social determinants of health.
5/12 & 5/19 12pm-1pm EST: Equity Series
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.

Volunteer Power, Privilege, and Positionally (PPP) Facilitators Needed
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. We are able to give MGH IHP student facilitators a one-time, $100 payment. To learn more about PPP and the facilitator role, please visit: https://www.mghihp.edu/ppp. To volunteer, please email : Kmartinez@mghihp.edu
Resource Sharing
The New Normal Episode 05: Top 10 Ways to Support Students During COVID 19: Watch Tony Sindelar, Instructional Designer & Teaching Consultant, Gayun Chan-Smutko, Associate Director, Genetic Counseling Program, Kimberly A. Truong, Executive Director, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Jack Gormley, Dean of Student & Alumni Services discuss 10 ways to support students during this time via YouTube .

5/6 1pm EST, Pandemic Call & Response- Black Queer & Trans communities: UNC School of Medicine hosts a webinar on grassroots organizing and practical solutions for equity in the Black Queer & Trans communities during COVID-19. RSVP HERE

5/7 11am-12:30pm, Immigrants’ Day (Virtually) at the State House 2020: Immigrants’ Day brings hundreds of immigrants and refugees to the State House to hear from public officials and advocate for our communities’ legislative and budget priorities. This year, Attorney General Maura Healey, state Rep. Marjorie Decker, Sen. Sal DiDomenico, Gladys Vega, of the Chelsea Collaborative, and Dawn Sauma, of the Asian American Task Force Against Domestic Violence will speak. RSVP HERE

Intersectionality Matters with Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, " Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare": On Wednesday March 25th, Intersectionality Matters teamed up with the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) to premiere a new virtual conversation series entitled “Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare”. On this episode, you’ll hear a condensed version of that conversation , which featured six incredible speakers and drew an audience of 1,300 people over Zoom.

Volunteer opportunities to help fight COVID-19 organized by Harvard Med School folks:

Help the local non-profit Fair Foods with unloading trucks, packing individual family bags, or distributing the food to families visiting their sites. Ongoing throughout the year, with varied times/flexible hours. Contact Samuel Lyon ( samuel_lyon@hms.harvard.edu ).

Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program is looking for volunteers of any training level to work as entry screeners, staff PPE spotters, and medical supplies runners (need a car) at Boston Hope Medical Center.  SIGN UP HERE. Contact bhchpscreening.hms@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Brigham & Women's Hospital: seeking volunteers to help screen community members for social determinants of health and connect them with resources in Roxbury and Mission Hill. Languages needed: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Russian. Contact Christin Price ( cnprice@bwh.harvard.edu ) or Regina ( rhagono@bwh.harvard.edu ).
Census 2020
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