2020 GlobalMindED
The Future of Work is Diverse, Inclusive, Just and Equitable
GlobalMindED closes the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline through connections to role models, mentors, internships for low-income students, returning adults, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.
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Coming Together Through Giving: Dr. Indira Lanig
Meet Dr. Indira Lanig, member of GlobalMindED’s Health Equity and Ability Status Leaders, dedicating her life as an unrelenting advocate for adults with physical disabilities, specializing in spinal cord injury medicine. As a third generation doctor who is both African American and Latina, Dr. Lanig is one the heroes we celebrate the rest of October during National Disability Employment month. She is a generous, inclusive leader and sets the standard for the contributions we can all aspire to make.
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Dr. Indira Lanig is a physician subspecialized in spinal cord injury (SCI) medicine and an unrelenting advocate for adults with physical disabilities. Through her donor-advised fund at Rose Community Foundation, Lanig supports programs and projects that improve the quality of life for individuals with acquired spinal cord injuries. She recently supported two more projects aimed at making it easier for health care providers to serve adults with neurotrauma-related physical disabilities.
One in four Americans lives with a disability and people with significant disabilities account for more than 12 percent of the US population. However, Lanig explains, adults with acquired physical disabilities are often unconsciously overlooked by primary care providers.
“When the average physician or person thinks about health disparity groups, they often think about the federally designated groups categorized by ethnicity, sexual orientation or economic status,” says Lanig. “Adults with physical disabilities are rarely included in that top-of-mind understanding. These folks are in the blind spot of health care providers.”
Adults with spinal cord injuries and similar physical disabilities tend to be a low-frequency, but high-stakes, patient population in a general practice. As a result, Lanig explains, most generalists are not familiar with basic best practices for caring for this population. This lack of knowledge creates costly barriers to care.
To help mitigate this complex problem, the Lanig Family Fund recently co-funded a soon-to-launch website landing page that primary care providers (PCPs) can use when caring for community-based patients with spinal cord injuries. Created in partnership with the American Spinal Injury Association and the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, the site offers straightforward, easy-to-digest content for physicians to utilize at the point of care.
The Lanig Family Fund also directed a grant to cover publisher fee expenses necessary to provide clinicians and consumers with free access to two 2020 PCP-dedicated issues of Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. Without the funding, these resources would remain siloed and difficult to access for most non-specialists.
“These tools will help generalists be more inclusive and mindful of unconscious biases,” says Lanig. “There is so much information about how to improve health equity for this patient population, but as specialists, we need to stop talking amongst ourselves and start talking to the rest of the medical field.”
The online resource is an anticipated component of a disability-inclusive specialty clinic project underway at Denver Health, funded by the Craig H Neilsen Foundation: “Primary Care Access and Innovations for SCI Patients.” Denver Health’s project partner, the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), will use their third Lanig Family Fund co-funding grant to analyze aggregate claims data to measure reductions in health-related complications, emergency room visits, service utilization and costs. The report will be entitled, “Using Claims Data to Determine the Efficacy of a Customized Primary Care Pilot for Patients with SCI,” and will reference previous custom data mining analytics supported by Lanig’s donor-advised fund and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing.
“Cross-sector collaboration is often the only way to solve for complex community-based needs in a systemic and sustainable way,” she contends. “It is my hope that this collaborative funding and knowledge sharing will bring expanded disability-competent care into view and reach for primary care providers, their organizations and their residency training programs.”
She plans to track the impact of these supportive partnerships with Denver Health, with the intention of using positive outcomes as proof of concept for other clinicians.
“We need to be able to measure the impact of our good intentions,” she explains. “It is my hope that when we look at the data years from now, we will see that Coloradans with mobility impairment disabilities have fewer emergency room visits and rehospitalizations per year. We will then be able to point to the dollars that are saved by Medicaid and Medicare when primary care providers have the strategically placed resources they need to make appropriate care decisions for this diverse population.”
Dr. Lanig also hopes that her efforts will demonstrate to her peers in the medical field that they too can creatively and dynamically utilize varied philanthropic tools and partnerships to improve outcomes for their patients.
“We physicians need not limit our philanthropic support to our alma maters and the nonprofit health care organizations where we practice,” she says. “There are many ways to advance health-equity focused, patient-centered causes.”
“This spirit of partnership is at the core of my relationship with Rose Community Foundation. We bring different insights, perspectives and skillsets to the table in service of addressing unmet health-equity needs in the Greater Denver disability community.”
To learn more, Dr. Lanig suggests reading:
The disabled community is heterogeneous. Some people are born with a disabling condition (e.g., Down syndrome) or demonstrate a condition early in life (e.g., autism, bipolar disorder), whereas others acquire disabilities through injury (e.g., spinal cord injury) or a chronic condition (e.g., limb loss because of diabetes), and still others develop a disability in later stages of life (e.g., dementia, age-related mobility disability). The health needs of people with disabilities vary with the type of limitation (e.g., mobility or cognitive) and by the condition underlying the disability (e.g., spina bifida, Down syndrome). Dr. Lanig’s focus is on prime of life adults with acquired disability and mobility limitations.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2:00 MT/4:00 ET
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Click to view the most recent webinars:
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Courageous Conversations: Catalyzing Change in Health: Dr. Monique Butler; Chief Medical Officer, Swedish Medical Center, Samuel Yamoah, Jr.; Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Dr. Georges Benjamin; Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Dr. J. Nadine Gracia; Exec. Vice President & COO, Trust for America’s Health, Dr. Karen McNeil-Miller; CEO, Colorado Health Foundation, Dr. Pierre Theodore; VP Global External Innovation, Johnson & Johnson, and Dr. Elena Rios; President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association.
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Diverse College Presidents Talk About First 6 Weeks of School: Dr. Ryan Ross; Assoc. V. Chancellor Student Affairs, Equity, & Inclusion, Colorado Community College System moderates. Panelists include Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston President, Norfolk State University, Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite President, Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Annette Parker President, South Central College, Minnesota State, Dr. Miles Davis President, Linfield University, and Dr. Michael Torrence President, Motlow State College
Hispanic Language Heritage Language Assets for Career Preparedness: Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and GlobalMindED, moderated by Lorena Orozco McElwain; OELA, Panelists include: Carol Carter; GlobalMindED, Felícita Solá-Carter; Excellence in Government Program, Oscar Fraire; University of Colorado Denver student, Patty Lopez; Intel Corporation, and Adrian Rosado; Cultural Clarity Experience.
Hispanic Language Heritage: Retention of Heritage Culture and Language(s) US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and GlobalMindED, and panelists celegrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Lorena Orozco and Supreet Anand of OELA, Cristina Alfaro; San Diego State University, Luis Benitez; VF Corporation, Clotilde Dedecker; Circle of Women, Joe Garcia; Ohkay OwinghTribe, and Dr.Joel Comez; Center for Applied Logistics
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: A Conversation on Race, Isms, Justice, Moving Forward and the Role White People Need to Play: Ryan Ross; Associate Vice Chancellor: Student Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion, Colorado Community College System leads the conversation with Clifton Taulbert; President and CEO, Freemount Corporation and Roots Java Coffee, Javon Brame; Dean of Students, Arapahoe Community College, Chelsea Williams; Founder & CEO, College Code LLC, and Representative Leslie Herod; Legislator, Colorado General Assembly
Equity in Engineering Programs: Priming the STEM Pipeline During and After COVID-19: Dr. Dora Renaud, Sr. Director of Academic Programs & Professional Development, SHPE: Leading Hispanics in STEM, Melanie Suarez, Student, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Mechanical Engineering, Nicolas Valencia Diaz, Student, Florida International University, Biomedical Engineering, Sophia Plata, PhD Student, University of Southern California, Environmental Engineering
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To view the recent Rural sessions, please see our YouTube channel:
Native American Business Opportunities, Tribal Economic Development and Post-secondary Education/Workforce Participation: J.C. Whorton, Jr.; Consultant, Lecturer, Author and Adjunct Faculty, University of Colorado Boulder, Don Kelin; President, Fox Professional Services, Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce, Matt Rantanen; Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association, Tribal Digital Village Network Initiative, and Melvin Monette; CEO, Indigenous Education, Inc.
Fortifying Native Students, Faculty and Communities During and After COVID-19: Ron Lessard (Mohawk); Acting Exec. Director, White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education leads panel including Diana Cournoyer; Oglala Sioux Tribe, Executive Director, National Indian Education Association, Michael Chamberlain; Special Assistant for Rural Outreach, US Department of Education, Carrie L. Billy; President & CEO, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and features a performance by Ava Rose Johnson; Student and Musician, Native American Music Awards Winner
Rural Innovations in Education During COVID-19: Anne Trujillo; Anchor 7News, Denver moderates the panel which includes Tina Goar; Executive Director, San Luis Valley BOCES, Dr. Robert Mitchell; Asst. Professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations, UCCS, Luis Murillo; Principal, Skoglund Middle School, and Samantha Yocam; Superintendent and Principal, Kim School District
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THE FLYOVER NATION
Energy's Role in a Troubled Heartland
By J.C. Whorton
A unique and timely discussion of the challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland.
Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has played a historic role in shaping its communities. Today, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population.
As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”?
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J.C. Whorton is a senior level energy and financial professional with over forty years of essential experience. Having a ranching and Native American heritage, Mr. Whorton is a strong advocate for rural education and economic development initiatives.
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Links to read about Inclusive Leaders, many of whom are African American and people of color:
Curated sessions from GlobalMindED 2020 YouTube channel:
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From the Center for Positive Organizations:
From the Economist:
From Forbes:
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From the World Academy of Art & Science and UN; Geneva Global Leadership in the 21st Century econference:
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Listen here for an interview with Pam Newkirk, GlobalMindED speaker and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business.
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Responding to Crisis
The 30-Day Justice Plan
As the reset of America is underway, understanding the role you can play in a system of change can be difficult, but we encourage you to listen, learn and be active. To start, instead of, say, a juice cleanse, feed your brain and move yourself with this practical plan over the next month. Here's our guide of what to read, watch, listen to and do in order to be part of the solution.
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GlobalMindED and the SDG Impact Fund are delighted to announce GlobalMindED's Donor Advised Fund. 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Women's Declaration and Action Platform. Many from around the world are thinking of 2020 as the gateway to our most vital decade for delivering equity, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a world where all can thrive. Our key time for these outcomes is 2020-2030.
GlobalMindED DAF and the SDG Impact Fund are a powerful combined force for good as the 2019 year comes to a close and we reflect on the gratitude and the commitments we make to the causes we care most about. The DAF offers immense power and flexibility for giving prior to the year's end as you plant seeds of generous intention for 2020 and the decade ahead.
When you contribute to GlobalMindED, you support First Gen students. We have served more than 400 students by connecting them to role models, mentors, internships and jobs. Your generous support will allow us to take our work 10x and reach these talented students at scale who lack the resources and support we provide. Your support also helps teachers who can't afford the conference fees, faculty at colleges which are under resourced and students who persist at those universities despite food insecurity and/or housing insecurity.
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Meet GlobalMindED Founder, Carol Carter as interviewed by Tim Moore on his podcast Success Made to Last: From Success to Significance
Listen to Part 1 of Carol's interview
Listen to Part 2 of Carol's interview
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Recent GlobalMindED Newsletter Profiles:
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Since 2006 when the flagship TGR Learning Lab opened its doors in Anaheim, CA, TGR Foundation has had a lot to celebrate, including its most recent milestone of one million students impacted by TGR EDU: Explore, alone.
Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, TGR EDU: Explore is a free digital resource library that offers interactive web experiences, lesson plans, training videos and tools for educators, students and families to explore new disciplines and gain skills for a modern and expanding workforce.
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As you start the New Year, are you looking for ways to re-engineer your classroom culture? Check out Designing the Future: How Engineering Builds Creative Critical Thinking in the Classroom. The associated website has lots of activities, projects, and resources you can implement immediately. Our fall workshops using the book as a roadmap for change have been highly successful. Start designing the future today - try using the customized Study Guide for a book study in your PLC. Or contact ProjectEngin or Solution Tree to learn how you can bring professional development based on Ann's book to your school, district, or conference.
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