By members of 2B1
In 2B1, we aim to honor and connect to Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy through Morgan Stone Week. Morgan Stone was a long-time Lincoln School student and founding member of 2B1, graduating in the class of ‘00. A few months into her freshman year of college, Morgan passed away. We hold Morgan Stone Week each year in commemoration of Morgan’s spirit and dedication to issues of racial equity. With support from our Center for Justice, Peace, and Global Citizenship, we take this opportunity to renew our commitment to creating a community of learners that celebrate diversity, inspire service, and foster a culture of peace. This year, Morgan Stone Week will be happening the week of January 24th, and will center around the theme of Justice in Healthcare. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Systemic racism as it manifests within healthcare has uniquely disastrous consequences, and is deeply harmful to patients, doctors, and communities. Over the past two years, deep-rooted historic racial disparities in health have been exacerbated by the onset of COVID-19. With this in mind, 2B1 aims to create a week of education, discussion, reflection, and activism focusing on injustice in all forms of health (physical, mental, social, etc.) through listening to speakers, attending workshops, and talking with one another. At the end of the week, 2B1 will be sending out a list of resources/information/ways to get involved, but if you’d like to learn more about the theme, these are some introductory videos. (We watched one together last Wednesday). How structural racism is magnifying the public health crisis If You're Not White It's Harder To Get Mental Health Care Also, as part of this year’s Morgan Stone Week, we’ll be watching the documentary Power to Heal - you can find the trailer here. Lastly, we’re so grateful to have Dr. Dionne Wright Poulton, the Chief Diversity Officer at Care New England Health Systems in RI, as our keynote speaker for this week. She will talk to us about her perspective on Justice in Healthcare from her work overseeing all diversity, equity and inclusion endeavors, involving over 7,000 employees and many thousands of patients, at three hospitals and in several healthcare facilities across the system. Dr. Poulton is a leading expert on diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, and transformational adult learning and behavior with special emphasis in addressing, mitigating and solving intercultural conflicts and incidents of unconscious bias in the workplace, and is also a formally trained K-12 teacher with a Ph.D. in Adult Education.
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