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EPISODE · Dec 30, 2025 · 56 MIN

LEAVING AMERICA: Joanna Keenan on moving to Mexico and back again

from East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray

Send us Fan MailToday's episode is part of a series called "Leaving America," about folks who have decided to move outside the country and how they did it. Our guest is Joanna Keenan. Jo and I worked together in Santa Cruz, California. We were both physician assistants in the same emergency department at the local hospital there. Eight years ago Jo and her spouse Kelly retired to Mexico. Five years ago, Joanna came out as a trans woman. We discuss our shared experience working in American healthcare, and her and Kel's decision to retire to Mexico and the logistics of that move. We also talk about her experience coming out as a trans woman in Mexico, and her and Kel's move back to the United States this year in large part because they have turned 65 and now qualify for Medicare which gives them access to better health care than what they had in Mexico.  Other episodes in the "Leaving America" series:Aaron Poe (Ireland)Tashina Duttle (Spain)Daniel Gundlach (Germany)Kathy McCue (New Zealand)

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Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is part of a series called "Leaving America," about folks who have decided to move outside the country and how they did it. Our guest is Joanna Keenan. Jo and I worked together in Santa Cruz, California. We were both physician assistants in the same emergency department at the local hospital there. Eight years ago Jo and her spouse Kelly retired to Mexico. Five years ago, Joanna came out as a trans woman. We discuss our shared experience working in Ameri...

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