Thirty-six days ago, I defended my dissertation from my kitchen on… Zoom. It was a far cry from the dissertation…
Notes from the Other Side: Post-Defense
An Update: On 30 March 2020, I defended my dissertation on Zoom, whilst sitting on a stool in my kitchen.…
“What did it take for you to arrive here?”: Healthcare Access, Social Needs, and SDOH
Picture in your mind’s eye a typical doctor’s office. What do you envision? Often, when we visualize the beginning of…
Happy New Year!
The last time I wrote here, it was mid-October, and I was working on a full draft of my dissertation…
A Brief Dispatch from My 4th Year
This past summer went by entirely too fast, and now autumn is nearing its end. The nippy cool breezes hint…
Reflecting On the 3rd Year of My PhD Program
Well, the Spring semester has been over for a month now, and this summer has been very go-go-go as I…
Devalued Lives, & Premature Death: Intervening at the Axes of Social ‘Difference’
“A racist society will give you a racist science.” — R. M. Young (1987). Racist society, racist science. In D.…
