😊 Happy Friday, folks! I’m excited to share that my teaching portfolio is now public: https://lnkd.in/ggrRfE72 ✅ This has been one of those to-do items that found its way into several yearly planner...

Racial microaggressions do not have to register as offensive nor state their message directly to communicate something about race and health. They can work through unstated assumptions or ideas that p...

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Honoring Black physicians means honoring those who expanded the very boundaries of what medicine is and today, like most days, I’m thinking about Dr. Chester Pierce. He wasn’t just a Black physician: he changed the definition of what counts as a health determinant. A psychiatrist, educator, and one of the first scholars to name racism itself as a public health threat; Dr. Pierce studied how everyday exposure to degrading messages, or has he coined it, “microaggressions,” accumulated into real physiological and psychological harm. He helped shape Sesame Street to counter racial bias in children’s media and advised institutions on equity (like the Olympics committee) long before it was a buzzword. He insisted that environment, culture, and meaning-making shape health just as surely as biology does. AMEN to that! Dr. Pierce asked a radical question that guides my work: What if the messages people receive about their worth are as consequential to health as the care they receive in a clinic? His legacy reminds us all that medicine is not only practiced in hospitals; it is practiced in classrooms, media, policy, and public discourse. If you're a psychologist and study microaggressions, be sure to cite Dr. Pierce (and not just contemporary scholars). His legacy can continue to pave the way towards an equitable future.

Benjamin Shepard’s book, “On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting,” documents decades of wisdom about the importance of friendship in movements.

Learning, right now, is the way we take care of one another. This semester, I redesigned an assignment because I couldn’t keep pretending certain topics are “too political” to teach. In my interdisc...

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed 20 faculty and staff from the City University of New York to his Transition Committees. They join more than 400 New Yorkers selected to provide critical person...

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Background In western countries such as Canada, immigrants are experiencing cultural food insecurity - that is the inability to acquire, afford, and access one' ethnic foods and community gardens have emerged as potential area for addressing cultural food insecurity. However, limited knowledge exists on the role of collective community gardens in addressing the cultural food needs of immigrant communities. Methods We conducted a community-based participatory research (CBPR) informed by an Afrocentric lens using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Data collection involved an online survey (n = 119) which was co-developed and co-administered with our community partners– Sinkunia Community Development Organization (SCDO). Semi-structured, in-depth interviews (IDI) were also conducted with purposefully sampled participants (n = 10) to obtain nuanced narratives. This study included Black identifying African immigrants from sub-Saharan countries. Results High prevalence of food insecurity (75.6%) was observed in the survey participants, higher than the general Canadian household prevalence rate. Participants recalled experiencing food insecurity ranging from mild (39.5%) to moderate (26.1%) and severe (10.1%) food insecurity. High prevalence of cultural food insecurity (80.7%) was also observed with most participants reporting some level of deprivation of cultural foods. However, participants demonstrated resilience and adaptability in maintaining their cultural food-ways amid these challenges. Collective community gardens allowed immigrant communities to: (a) cultivate connections through food production (‘seeds of sovereignty’); (b) build intergenerational bridges (‘seeds of identity’); (c) grow together across generations; and (d) grow strong to embody health and wellbeing. Conclusion The findings contribute to a growing body of evidence on the embodied benefits of community gardens for food security and social place-making of immigrant populations. High interest and engagement in gardening activities in the population suggests potential for expansion of community-led initiatives to support social and cultural integration of immigrant. This is important to Alberta’s and to Canada’s current and future sustainable economic and social growth.

Study of a German trial plot reveals that high-mounted solar panels can support diverse bird use, though habitat complexity remains key

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