NCHE PRESENTS: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America

Our nation is experiencing a strong movement for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation. It advances in communities, on college campuses and in business sectors. NCHE lifts up leaders finding innovative ways to heal and build bridges to tomorrow. We talk with leaders addressing the entrenched legacy of separation and segregation. We strategize with those tackling racist policies and legal structures that impede Black and Brown communities. Join us on this journey. Tune in for NCHE PRESENTS: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America. NCHE's Dr. Gail C. Christopher is our host.

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NCHE PRESENTS: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America...Special Guest Dr. J.Goosby Smith

Host Dr. Gail C. Christopher, Executive Director at National Collaborative for Health Equity (NCHE), talks with Dr. J.Goosby Smith about the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation™ (TRHT™) movements she spurred at Citadel and Pepperdine. TRHT, which the W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched in 2016, unites organizations and the private sector to advance racial healing and build racial equity in our communities. TRHT is centered around the pillars of its framework: narrative change, racial healing ...

Jul 18, 2023•32 min

ON THE NEW EPISODE OF NCHE PRESENTS: LEADERS PURSUING HEALTH EQUITY IN AMERICA, LEARN HOW AINKA JACKSON HELPS BRING RACIAL HEALING TO SELMA

Host Dr. Gail Christopher interviews Ainka Jackson, founding Executive Director of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation. Jackson is committed to eliminating “the cancer that is racism” and facilitating economic justice, she tells host Dr. Christopher on the new episode of the NCHE PRESENTS: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America podcast . The center was founded in 2014, Jackson says, “to address different forms of violence, whether that be economic violence, whether tha...

Mar 14, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3

ON THE NEW EPISODE OF NCHE PRESENTS: LEADERS PURSUING HEALTH EQUITY IN AMERICA, LEARN HOW AUTHENTIC ENGAGEMENTS IMPACT RACIST BELIEFS & BEHAVIOR

Speaking with Dr. Gail Christopher, Angela Waters Austin, executive director of One Love Global Inc, demonstrates the power of authentic engagements to address racism, telling our host about healing circles and discussions that generated positive results and changed beliefs. She also says the COVID-19 pandemic forced community organizations to adopt creative approaches to helping youths and the community. “It tested our ability to innovate,” Austin says of COVID-19. “It tested our ability to be ...

Feb 06, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 2

NCHE PRESENTS: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America. Our special guest is Dr. Kaiwipuni Punihei Lipe, a Native Hawaiian mother, daughter, ‘ōlapa, and educator.

Our guest, Dr. Kaiwipuni Punihei Lipe, is an extraordinary leader who talks about the culture of native Hawaiians and the many challenges they face in their homeland, including the astronomical cost of housing. “We were struggling in so many ways, all very connected to the loss of our lands, more than half of native Hawaiians live outside of Hawaii,” she says in her conversation with host, Dr. Gail C. Christopher. “We cannot afford to live on our own homelands.” But Dr. Lipe speaks of their spir...

Dec 21, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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