S3 Ep. 7 Exploring White Supremacist Funding Practices with Dr. Liz Chen, Dr. Deshira Wallace, Dr. Cristina Leos, and Dr. Yesenia Merino

"Instead of training our public health students to work under the umbrella of a broken system or a system that can be greatly improved, it seems more efficient to turn the conversation and start to think through: how can we strengthen the funding organizations and their ability to support diverse scholars and diverse community orgs and projects to take a more proactive stance in leading to equity?" In this episode, Dr. Liz Chen,  Dr. Deshira Wallace, Dr. Cristina Leos, and Dr. Yesenia Merino help us explore aspects of White supremacy culture and how it shows up in the grants process. They identify issues including power hoarding, perfectionism, urgency, and paternalism, as well as also offer some antidotes, like transparency, creativity, and reimagining the funding systems. This episode references the article titled "Examining the White Supremacist Practices of Funding Organizations for Public Health Research and Practice: A Composite Narrative From Female, BIPOC Junior Researchers in Public Health" by Elizabeth Chen, PhD, MPH, Deshira Wallace, PhD, MSPH, Cristina Leos, PhD, MSPH, and Yesenia Merino, PhD, MPH. The other two papers in HPP's What Is Antiracism in Health Promotion Practice? series are: Dear Health Promotion Scholar: Letters of Life From, for, and About Black Women in Academia PRESENCE//Gifted: On Poetry, Anti-Racism, and Epistemic Violence in Health Promotion