Rev. Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson still remembers when she was only four years old sitting at a nurse’s station in the hospital, while her mother was visiting with Gibson’s father, who wasdying of pancreatic cancer. “So much of the work that I do around health equity comes from that very early knowledge of how important […]
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NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Yesenia Cuello, Executive Director at NC FIELD
Yesenia Cuello may only be 30 years old, but she has a lifetime of experience to inform her work as Executive Director of NC FIELD, a non-profit working with farmworker youth, families, and H-2A guest workers by utilizing grassroots organizing principles to teach leadership, promote education, health and safety, and facilitate access to opportunities, including […]
NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Josie Williams of Greensboro Housing Coalition
Safe and affordable housing has always had a major impact on the life of Josie Williams, Executive Director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition. Williams spent her youth in an area many would consider not fit for children. “It was funny,” she says, “I was reading an article that described my old neighborhood, and it brought back […]
NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Chester Williams of ABC2
Care Share Health Alliance is excited to share a new series of articles on North Carolina’s BIPOC leaders working in the health equity space. Our first entry features Chester Williams, founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of A Better Chance, A Better Community. A Chance, a Better Community (ABC2) is an organization serving Northeastern North Carolina […]
