JUNE
A day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, Greater Good Berkeley hopes it helps you talk about the hard stuff.
JULY - Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
We at Touro University California believe that Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Access to mental health, especially in times of crisis is essential. It is in what we learn, teach and lead in our communities through our work!
Please share, as we recognize National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. It is observed each July to bring awareness to the unique struggles that racial and ethnic minority communities face regarding mental illness in the United States.
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TUC Library has created a Asian American Pacific Islander History special resource list on the Library blog. Here is the URL: https://libguides.tu.edu/blog/Highlighted-TUC-Library-Resources-in-Honor-of-Asian-Pacific-American-History-Month.
Rainbow Health Coalition with the DEI Office
In recognition of SAAM, Rainbow Health Coalition and the TUC DEI Office will be holding an LGBTQIA+ affirming healing circle intended for survivors and those affected by SA to collectively release feelings of grief and invite practices of joy through building community.
The Healing Circle will take place on Monday, August 25th, 5PM over Zoom.
To respect our attendees' privacy, we kindly ask that you please register via the Google form for the zoom link.
https://forms.gle/5WEa8t5bKpCeHjhb6
If you have any questions, please reach out to Alex Guevara, aguevara2@student.touro.edu, or Cindy Su, csu@student.touro.edu.
Inclusion and Equity becomes tangible when Access is the key factor! Access comes in the form of voting. Learn how to be proactive in these initiatives for California.
Register Here: https://bit.ly/37D7be2
Facebook Live Stream: @CaliforniaSOS
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1865-1915
first American Indian woman in the United States to receive a medical degree & first person to receive federal aid for professional education
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As a child she grew up on the Omaha Reservation in northeastern Nebraska. She had watched a sick Indian woman die because the local white doctor would not give her care. She enrolled at Hampton Institute, one of the nation's first and finest schools of higher education for non-white students. By securing scholarship funds from the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs and the Connecticut Indian Association, after only two years in a three-year program at WMCP, Susan La Flesche graduated in 1889 at the top of her class. She returned home to provide health care to the Omaha people at the government boarding school, where she was responsible for some twelve hundred people.
In 1906 she led a delegation to Washington, D.C., to lobby for prohibition of alcohol on the reservation. In 1913, two years before her death, she saw her life's dream fulfilled when she opened a hospital in the reservation town of Walthill, Nebraska. Today the hospital houses a museum dedicated to the work of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte and the history of the Omaha and Winnebago tribes. In her remarkable career she served more than 1,300 people over 450 square miles, giving financial advice and resolving family disputes as well as providing medical care at all hours of the day and night.
1921-2014
political activist, social justice, advancing human rights.
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She was born and raised in San Pedro, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, her father, just out of surgery, was arrested and detained in a hospital. "He was the only Japanese in that hospital," Kochiyama recalls, "so they hung a sheet around him that said, 'Prisoner of War.'" He died shortly thereafter. In 1943, Yuri and her family were sent to the Japanese concentration camps in Arkansas for two years. These experiences made Kochiyama highly aware of governmental abuses and would forever bond her to those engaged in political struggles. As a wife and mother in Harlem in 1963, she participated in the Asian American, Black, and Third World movements for civil and human rights, ethnic studies, and against the war in Vietnam. As founder of Asian Americans for Action, she also sought to build a more political Asian American movement that would link itself to the struggle for Black liberation. "Racism has placed all ethnic peoples in similar positions of oppression poverty and marginalization."
1946 -
activist, educator, scholar, author Women of the Color Press
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She co-founded the Combahee River Collective and publishing house Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press-which was run by and for women of color. Smith's activism has been approached through an intersectional lens- as a Black lesbian socialist, she has fought for racial justice, death penalty abolition, LGBTQIA+ rights, worker's rights, anti-imperialism, and feminism. Barbara and her colleagues in the Combahee River Collective are credited with originating the term "identity politics," defining it as an inclusive political analysis for contesting the interlocking oppressions of race, gender, class and sexuality. Now widely referred to as "intersectionality," this analytical approach has shaped scholarship, teaching, and progressive activism. Barbara's work has been a source of guidance and inspiration to individuals and movements committed to battling both external and internal oppression.
1960-2020
transgender activist and community organizer
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A transgender activist and community organizer who worked to help transgender women and Latino immigrants survive trafficking and abusive situations. Borjas advocated through establishing a bail fund and syringe-exchange programs for trans women taking hormone injections. Lorena has spent years walking the streets and supporting others to escape abusive situations, providing condoms and food, connecting the trans women she meets to services and support, and even setting up a weekly HIV testing clinic in her own home. Her passion for this work, which she did for many years without pay or institutional support, stems from her own experiences of being trafficked. Lorena was at high risk of deportation due to old convictions from when she was being trafficked, and this pardon will allow her to pursue immigration relief. Ms. Borjas, an indefatigable activist who drew on her own experiences as an immigrant transgender woman to help others.
1888-1970
first Filipino woman to become a doctor in the United States. A surgeon and obstetrician, researcher, teacher and physician
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A Filipina who studied to become a physician at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she became the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Review, founded to defend "the interest and aspirations of the Filipino people in America." Her story speaks to the impact and effect of being born and living under colonial rule and how cultural assimilation can echo for decades. Dr. Honoria Acosta-Sison, lived through three imperial regimes and undoubtedly played a major part in the medicalization of childbirth in the Philippines.
1893-1987
civil rights leader, first Black woman to graduate from the School of Pharmacy at University of Pittsburgh. first Black woman licensed to practice pharmacology in the state of Pennsylvania, and one of the first in the country.
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After convincing the University of Pittsburgh for enrollment, in 1916 she was the first Black woman to graduate from the School of Pharmacy. She was the first Black woman licensed to practice pharmacology in the state of Pennsylvania, and one of the first in the country. She opened the first Black-owned pharmacy in Toledo, Ohio in 1922, where she often housed Black travelers and opened her apartment above the pharmacy as a welcoming place for various clubs and organizations to hold meetings. She was committed to advancing the lives of Black people and other marginalized groups in her community, country, and around the world.
1888-1968
Women healthcare advocate, first woman on the senior medical staff at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, NJ, founder of the endocrinology department in 1939, performed the first pregnancy tests in New Jersey.
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Rita Sapiro Finkler studied law at St. Petersburg University at age sixteen before emigrating to the United States and enrolling in the Women's College of Pennsylvania in 1911. She practiced pediatrics and obstetrics before turning to endocrinology. As a Jewish woman She advocated for women in her practice, researching topics like fertility issues caused by malnutrition during World War II and through her involvement with the American Medical Women's Association. Finkler published on a wide range of women's health issues related to endocrinology, including pregnancy tests, infertility, ovarian dysfunction, and the use of synthetic estrogen for treating menopause. She was the first woman on the senior medical staff at any Newark hospital, first chief of endocrinology, and first female chief of any department at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, where she became chief emeritus and consultant endocrinologist. An avid traveler and photographer, she also spoke six languages.
1831-1895
first African American woman to earn an M.D. degree. 'Book of Medical Discourses' is one of the very first medical publications by an African American and of a female physician.
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When she graduated New England Female Medical College in 1864, Crumpler was the first African American woman in the United States to earn an M.D. degree, and the only African American woman to graduate from the New England Female Medical College. After the Civil War ended in 1865, she joined other black physicians caring for freed slaves who would otherwise have had no access to medical care, working with the Freedmen's Bureau, and missionary and community groups, even though black physicians experienced intense racism working in the postwar South. Rebecca Lee Crumpler challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers in medicine.
1865-1887
first female of Indian origin to study and graduate with a degree in medicine in the United States
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Anandi Joshi addressed the community at Serampore College Hall, explaining her decision to go to America and obtain a medical degree. She stressed the need for Hindu female doctors in India, and talked about her goal of opening a medical college for women in India. She also pledged that she would not convert to Christianity. Her speech received publicity, and financial contributions started pouring in from all over India.
Anandi Joshi traveled to New York from Calcutta by ship and In America, her declining health worsened because of the cold weather and unfamiliar diet, she had contracted tuberculosis. Nevertheless she graduated from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, which was the second women's medical program in the world in 1886. The topic of her thesis was "Obstetrics among the Aryan Hindoos". On her graduation, Queen Victoria sent her a congratulatory message.
In late 1886, Anandi Joshi returned to India, receiving a hero's welcome. A year prior to her death at the age of 22, The princely state of Kolhapur appointed her as the physician-in-charge of the female ward of the local Albert Edward Hospital.
1909-1974
first woman at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to be named a full professor. introduced the Apgar Score
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By the time she graduated from high school, Virginia Apgar was determined to be a doctor. Apgar entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University just before the Wall Street crash of October 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression. Despite financial problems, she graduated fourth in her class in 1933.
She designed and introduced the Apgar Score, the first standardized method for evaluating a newborn's transition to life outside the womb. In 1959, while on sabbatical leave, Apgar earned a master's degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins University. Deciding not to return to academic medicine, she devoted herself to the prevention of birth defects through public education and fundraising for research. She became the director of the division of congenital defects at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now the March of Dimes) and received many honors and awards for her work.
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In recognition of Black History Month, the TUC Library has put together a list of resources for the TUC Community. It includes biographies of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, feature films including BlacKkKlansman and 12 Years a Slave, several streaming documentaries, and a large selection of ebooks. You may access the resource list here https://tu.edu/bhm/TUC_BlackHistoryMonth-LibraryResources.pdf