Let’s Talk Health Equity and Microaggressions in Academia and Medicine

On this episode, we are joined by Ms. Aurora Washington.  Originally from Mississippi she attended Tougaloo College before matriculating to Brown University where she is a PhD candidate in Biotechnology. We discuss the unique challenges of black and brown students in graduate education especially as they relate to  microaggressions, inclusivity, belonging and retention in the academic space.  To explore this topic further, she created the podcast series, Voicing Black Experiences, whose mission is to cultivate a space for historically underrepresented people, BIPOC, to voice their experiences in the spaces they traverse.  https://www.voicingblackexperiences.com/academia-medicine