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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes. Another crucial factor in maternal and infant health: the mental wellbeing of women and birthing people, especially as it intersects with race.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Early on, the community established itself enough to have its own cultural center, known as Cambodia Town. Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. But so too is the creative spirit. Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge made everything much worse.

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Management Challenges: Early Lessons in Advancing Pay Equity and Wellness Globally

NonProfit Quarterly

We have also been stirred by the long-overdue reckoning over race in the United States and sought in response to address racial equity more squarely in our work. Staff may be underpaid or lack culturally relevant benefits. Introspection and culture shift is needed, too. We canceled all work travel.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. The culture I come from relies a lot on storytelling to cement our learning and culture.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

A sustained peace of mind comes from the stability of a good job, knowing that your children are safe, knowing that you are not going to lose your home. Rest inequality refers to the gap in the quality, duration, and amount of rest people get depending on their status in Western culture. Rest Is An Act of Core Health.

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Interview: Dismantling Structural Racism in Health Around the World

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They are creating anti-racist strategies to respond because today too many people are limited by racism and discrimination based on ethnicity, caste, tribe, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and religion. I knew that I had to pass medical school, I had to nod and say yes and do what I needed to do. It permeates everywhere.

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