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Thanks for tuning into the Transform Nursing Podcast! I am Nikki Akparewa, the Creative Director of Transform Nursing and your host. My podcasts focuses on leaders in the community who do work around social justice, health equity and most importantly leadership. In addition to my podcast I do frequent facebook lives discussing important issues to nurses and I have a course, the Nurses Influential Leadership Lab, teaching you in a dynamic way how to engage in deep and honest conversations around the impact of race on health. It also provides you with the tools and support needed for you to enforce inclusive leadership models within your organization. Today, I have the pleasure of sharing the story of a Dorothy Charles, a medical student who is a social justice champion and a rising leader in the White Coats 4 Black Lives movement. Dorothy Charles is a 4th year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an alumna of Princeton University, with a degree in Molecular Biology and a minor in Neuroscience. Since starting medical school, she has been involved in health justice work, from single payer advocacy with Students for a National Health Program to organizing medical students for racial justice with White Coats for Black Lives. She is planning to pursue a career in family medicine, focusing on maternal child health and urban underserved medicine. In her free time, you can find her brunching with friends, attending poetry slams (watching, not performing!), and spending way too much time on Twitter @dn_charles. In this episode, Dorothy gives us several opportunities to ponder how we as clinicians can take more responsibility for creating conversations and provide the structure for inclusive leadership. Here are a few takeaways for the show: Being afraid and being willing to try create opportunity for marginalized groups to be included in their care Using creative tension to spark conversations around facts is vital to the success of organizational growth Harnessing social motivation around political events is an opportunity to create engagement Making connections between your patients experiences, historical factors, and social determinants of health will provide you with the tools you need to make the best diagnosis You can find more information about Dorothy at www.dncharles.com or email her at heydorothy@dncharles.com If you have any questions from the show please email me at: transformnursing@gmail.com. My website is: www.transformnursing.com And my course, the Nurses Influential Leadership Lab can be found at: https://transformnursing.com/trainings/ I absolutely love learning about fresh topics so please share those with me and if you email me your testimonial or response I will share it on the next show. If you like something I've said in the show (or don't like it) please let me know. I am all about engaging in conversation with you.