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
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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 sc…
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The Craziness That Was 2020: Reflections and Lessons Learned
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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 medi…
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Anti-Racism Series Ep 3: Transforming Trauma into Healing for BlPOC Communities with Chanel Durley
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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 …
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Anti-Racism Series Ep 2: Demanding Police Free Schools in Oakland with Black Organizing Project
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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, …
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Anti-Racism Series Ep 1: Demanding an Anti-Racist Medicine with Noor Chadha & Aminta Kouyate
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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…
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S3Ep4: Integrating Ancestral, Indigenous, and Holistic Healing with the Freedom Community Clinic
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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 exci…
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S3Ep3: Food, Immigrant Justice, and BBQ Without Borders with Dr. Vibha Gupta
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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 roo…
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S3Ep2: Intergenerational Social Justice Activism in Medicine with Dr. Alicia Fernández
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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 inte…
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S3Ep1: Healing and Self-Care During Clerkship Year
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By Bernadette Lim, Nicole Carvajal, & Ivie Tokunboh
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Healing By & For Womxn of Color in Oakland: Live Event Recording
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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 m…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Bay Area Live Recording on 9/27: Healing Justice By and For Womxn of Color in Oakland!
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Join us, Woke WOC Docs, for a live podcast recording and community celebration with womxn of color healers rooted in Oakland! Together, we talk more about healing by and for womxn of color and communities in Oakland and how various healing practices, frameworks, and modalities can work together for community medicine and healing.As Woke WOC Docs ha…
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Summer Series Ep4: Demystifying the Opioid Epidemic with Dr. Paula Lum and Dr. Triveni DeFries
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For our last episode of our Summer Series, we are talking with Dr. Paula Lum and Dr. Triveni DeFries, both physician activists of the UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship.In this episode, we talk more about the historical and racial roots of the socially constructed phenomena of “the opioid epidemic”. In addition, we talk about how struc…
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Announcement: Apply for the Freedom School Healing & Health Justice National Fellowship!
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Hey y'all! Bernie here today with some exciting news for all of our listeners across the United States.As many of you know and have followed, Nicole and I are the founders of the Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice which has become an amazing community and healing space for people involved in medicine, public health, and h…
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Summer Series Ep3: Black Maternal Health Activism with Dr. Monica McLemore
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“We cannot be generative if we are afraid.” We are so hype for you to hear and learn from the wisdom and electric energy of Dr. Monica McLemore, Assistant Professor of Family Health Care Nursing at UCSF. Together, we talk about health injustices faced by Black mothers and the amazing work of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. In addition, we talk abo…
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Summer Series Ep2: U.S. Immigration Border Crisis with Dr. Eleanor Chung
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Spotlight on the U.S. immigration border crisis has significantly increased in large part due to the hateful rhetoric of the Trump administration and global xenophobic sentiments. However, these issues have always existed. Our communities are standing strong in the fight for justice.In this episode, we’re talking with Dr. Eleanor Chung, a pediatric…
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Summer Series Ep1: Police Violence as a Public Health Issue with Dr. Rupa Marya
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Police violence and law enforcement violence is a pressing public health issue. Period. In particular, indigenous, Black, Latinx, disabled, mentally ill and poor people are disproportionately targeted by police violence. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rupa Marya who co-leads the Justice Study, a community-based study that researches health outcome…
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Happy Summer y'all!We are very excited to launch our first Summer Series which will highlight womxn of color experts and activists addressing critical health issues affecting underserved communities today. The topics we've chosen to highlight this summer are: Police Violence as a Public Health Issue, the Opioid Epidemic, Black Maternal Health Activ…
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S2Ep7: Margo Okazawa-Rey: Creating Freedom Spaces for Love, Justice, and Transformation
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“Who could we become and who are we if we define ourselves in ways other than just being oppressed and under siege?” The wisdom of Margo Okazawa-Rey in this podcast radiates, y’all. We are so excited for you to hear it.In this episode, we talk more about Margo’s journey into and through activism as one that is a deeply personal endeavor, from being…
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S2Ep6: Hamida Yusufzai: Serving Youth of Color with Love for Liberation
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We are especially excited to share this episode featuring Hamida Yusufzai, a community activist doing health justice work as the Program Manager of Banteay Srei, a community organization founded as a safe space for young Southeast Asian women who are engaged or at-risk of sexual exploitation in Oakland, California. As doctors, we believe it is impo…
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S2Ep5: Dr. Maisha Davis: Keeping the Art in the Art of Healing
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Dr. Maisha Davis is about to get real with us in this episode y’all. Together, we talk about Maisha’s journey into and through medicine, including how living at the intersection of multiple identities has helped them connect deeply with their patients. In addition, Maisha tells us how they have been able to draw radical boundaries in their own care…
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S2Ep4: Dr. Rhea Boyd: Making the World Safer for Black Children Beyond Diversity Rhetoric
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Dr. Rhea Boyd has known ever since she was young that she wanted to be a pediatrician. Her grounding motivation? Making the world safer for children, especially Black kids and children who face various social and structural stressors and oppression. In this episode, we learn more about Rhea’s journey into and through medicine, including how she car…
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S2Ep3: India Perez-Urbano: Harm Reduction Activism and Self-Love in Medical School
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During her first year of medical school, India has had a busy, yet fulfilling transition moving from the East Coast to the Bay Area. In this episode, India tells us more about the advocacy pursuits she’s continued in medical school and her new journey of exploring self-love. In particular, we learn more about how her upbringing and sociology backgr…
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S2Ep2: Dr. Aisha Mays: On Being Free-Spirited, Tenacious, and Balanced in Medicine
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Dr. Aisha Mays is a passionate advocate for the health and well-being of young people. While she wears many hats as a doctor, researcher, mentor, and advocate, what strikes us most is how she melds her advocacy work and career with her hobbies and strives for balance throughout her life journey. In this episode, Aisha describes her journey into and…
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S2Ep1: Meet the Hosts Bernie, Nicole, & Ivie: Community Organizing, Engineering, & Family Dreams
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Happy 2019 y’all. We’re so excited to launch Season 2 of Woke WOC Docs. In this episode, you’ll learn more about something y’all really should heard a long time ago: who we are as hosts and why this podcast matters to us in the first place. In spite of our diverse journeys coming into medicine (from community organizing to bioengineering to family …
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S1Ep4: Jessica Valdez: Compassionate Sunshine Friend, Vulnerability Queen, and Future Doctor
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Jess Valdez is only at the beginning of her journey in medicine, yet she has found motivation and grounding in her purpose by always remembering and honoring the people, communities, and experiences that have made her who she is today. In addition to being a medical student at UCSF and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, Jess embraces her identitie…
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S1Ep3: Dr. Kim Chang: Serving and Advocating for the Medically Underserved
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Dr. Kim Chang is a family medicine physician at Asian Health Services (AHS) in Oakland, CA. In this episode, we learn how her experiences as a doctor and medical director at AHS has shaped her work according to their mission: to serve and advocate for the medically underserved. In this episode, Dr. Chang tells us more about her love for community h…
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S1Ep2: Dr. Zoë Julian: Decolonizing Ourselves and Medicine
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Dr. Zoë Julian is currently finishing up her OB/GYN residency at UCSF. Yet, in spite of her busy clinical schedule, she finds time to pause, telling us about the importance of empathy and unraveling existing imbalances of power and privilege in not only institutions of power like medicine, but in her own personal life and relationships. In this epi…
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S1Ep1: Dr. Monica Hahn: Medicine, Social Justice, and Activism
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Dr. Monica Hahn first and foremost describes herself as radical, yet this description is no surprise considering her work as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, ethnic studies scholar activist, and salsa and capoeira extraordinaire. Together, we explore her journey into and through medicine alon…
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Join us, Bernie and Nicole, every other week for a candid conversation with dope womxn of color in medicine. Together we'll learn more about their journeys in medicine and converse on how to challenge and transform medicine to be a better institution dedicated to health, social justice, and well-being.…
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