Woke WOC Docs

Dec 27 2021 29 ep. 47 mins 250

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We are Woke WOC Docs, a podcast about the lives of womxn of color in medicine/health justice, including their unique experiences, viewpoints, and struggles in education, research, and practice. We want to reveal the insights we as womxn of color uniquely have on how medicine can transform to end health injustices and be a better institution of health, well-being, and healing. Subscribe to us on SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify or our mailing list: http://bit.ly/subscribewokewocdocs

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On foregoing residency after medical school to lead Freedom Community Clinic: A convo w/ Bernie Lim

Dec 27 2021 71 mins

It's been a minute since we published an episode! In this episode, we have an intimate conversation with Bernie about her decision to not go to residency after medical school to lead the Freedom Community Clinic. Facilitated by Nicole and questions from the audience, Bernie talks more about her journey of coming to that decision while in medical school, her thoughts on the limita

The Craziness That Was 2020: Reflections and Lessons Learned

Jan 05 2021 60 mins

2020 was a hot mess. Phew. Y'all didn't need us to say it. Together, we talk more together about the lessons we learned from our third year of medical school/research year and our wellness strategies in the midst of this crazy year while working in the hospital daily and doing research. We delve deeper into what surprised us about the field of medicine, how we've been able to t

Anti-Racism Series Ep 3: Transforming Trauma into Healing for BlPOC Communities with Chanel Durley

Oct 13 2020 75 mins

We are so excited to interview beloved community healer and warrior Chanel Durley, founder of 33rd and RiSING, a wellness space that provides healing for Black, Indigenous, and POC communities in the Bay Area and beyond. In this episode, we talk about Chanel’s experiences with Crohn’s in which she experienced racism and deep injustice and inequity in multiple encounters and 1

Anti-Racism Series Ep 2: Demanding Police Free Schools in Oakland with Black Organizing Project

Sep 07 2020 69 mins

We are hellaaaaaa hype to talk with Black Organizing Project, the amazing Black member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community-building in Oakland, California. The Black Organizing Project (BOP) led the victory for Oakland to implement police-free schools in June 2020, a resolution that calls for movi

Anti-Racism Series Ep 1: Demanding an Anti-Racist Medicine with Noor Chadha & Aminta Kouyate

Aug 11 2020 59 mins

For this episode, we are hella excited to interview our beautiful friends Noor Chadha and Aminta Kouyate, medical and graduate students at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program and founding team members of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine. Together, we talk more with Noor and Aminta about their work demanding and advocating for an anti-racist medicine through

S3Ep4: Integrating Ancestral, Indigenous, and Holistic Healing with the Freedom Community Clinic

May 27 2020 58 mins

Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing the organizing team of the Freedom Community Clinic. Founded in 2019, the Freedom Community Clinic provides community-centered, whole-person healing combining the strengths of Western medicine and ancestral and indigenous healing to the Bay Area. All services are for free and sliding scale. We are so excited to talk hear more about the

S3Ep3: Food, Immigrant Justice, and BBQ Without Borders with Dr. Vibha Gupta

Apr 29 2020 41 mins

In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Vibha Gupta, an emergency medicine doc at Kaiser Oakland and Richmond, and the founder of the No Immigrants No spice non profit. Vibha is second-generation daughter of Indian immigrants, born, bred and raised in the Midwest, and is now firmly transplanted in the Bay Area. As an emergency room doctor by day, Vibha is inspired

S3Ep2: Intergenerational Social Justice Activism in Medicine with Dr. Alicia Fernández

Mar 21 2020 56 mins

We are wishing everyone lots of love during this time. If you're in the Bay Area, the Freedom Community Clinic created a community mass resource sheet with up-to-date health information on COVID-19 at tinyurl.com/bayareacovid19help. We have the enormous privilege and excitement to talk with Dr. Alicia Fernández, a professor of Medicine, general internist at San Francisco General

S3Ep1: Healing and Self-Care During Clerkship Year

Feb 19 2020 43 mins

Whaddup y’all! Happy 2020. We are excited to launch Season 3 and share more exciting episodes with womxn of color in medicine and health justice work. For this episode, we’re giving a personal update on our lives: what’s been going on with each of us in 2019, gratitude to everyone who came to our live show last September, and goals for ourselves and WWD moving forward in 2020

Healing By & For Womxn of Color in Oakland: Live Event Recording

Oct 23 2019 88 mins

We are so grateful to the 100+ people who attended our live podcast recording at Red Bay Coffee in Oakland on September 27. We're hella excited for our listeners to hear the amazing wisdom and energy of the room when womxn of color healers from Oakland talk about the healing, movement, and social change in the beloved Town. The intro and Bernie's meditation goes until 4:00. This