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Parallels between healthcare in the United States, Lebanon, and Canada. The need for Medicare for All and why so many Americans are afraid of that proposal.

Memories experiences perspectives from growing up in Moline, Illinois 40’s and 50’s.

Colleagues Michael Holtz (54) and Brenda Blunt [no age given] share how their experiences inform their work in health equity. Michael talks about his experience as a cancer survivor, and Brenda talks about her work in nutrition literacy.

Cathy Thomas (72) speaks with her niece and goddaughter Katherine "KC" McNaughton (22). Katherine shares how she became involved in hospice care as a volunteer and about her life and studies.

Quianna Canada interviews Cork Alliance Centre CEO, Sheila Connolly, about supporting previously incarcerated people in Cork, Ireland, through her organisation's services. Connolly's motto is "ubuntu," which is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. In my opinion, Connolly leads...

Mirna shares with Melody her immigration story and what led her to a career in healthcare

Friends and colleagues Dr. Sheila Snyder (48) and Dr. Nadia Abraham Gove (46) discuss gun sports in Nebraska and the need for gun safety.

Friends Daniel "Alejandro" Pinilla (30) and Marija Krstevska (27) share about how they chose their careers in advocacy, share some of their childhood memories, and talk about their time in New York with the Columbia Human Rights Advocates Program.

Rayna (25) and Victoria (27) talk about Rayna's path to Providence, and what brought her to her internship on the Health Equity team. They discuss the importance of Health Equity, and their hopes for the future of healthcare and the...

Friends and colleagues Portia Wofford (34) and Sarah Warren (24) share their experiences as nurses and consider how social media can help with healthcare advocacy.

One Small Step conversation partners Marie Thompson (51) and Rosalind "Roz" Watkins (60) share coping mechanisms from childhood and as adults, loss of loved ones, addiction and recovery, political policies and conversing with people who disagree with them.

Hillary Barton (38) interviews her great-uncle, Noel Nellis (87), about his childhood, career, family, church, and the lessons that he has learned throughout his life.

One Small Step conversation partners Kristin Arnoldi (43) and Bob Bowden (60) discuss politics and reaching across the divide.

Christine shares personal stories about the challenges of getting good healthcare as a deaf person. Being disrespected, misinterpreted, and not being able to trust doctors and others in the healthcare system.

One Small Step partners Kimberly "Kim" Wilkerson (46) and Karyn Mauch (32) discuss leaving a fundamentalist religion, health care advocacy, and their mutual interest in genealogy.

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

One Small Step conversation partners Gary Askounes (54) and Scott Ilnicky (61) discuss the American role in wars around the word, navigating the American healthcare system as a parent, and their shared appreciation of live music.

Colleagues Yasuharu "Haru" Okuda (49) and Phillip Wortham (39) share the experiences that led them to undertake careers in medical simulation and explain the importance of simulated medical practice for reducing patient harm and loss of life.

Human rights and the transgender community in Brazil

Interview with Amy Weismann talking about her law experience and work with human rights

Dominique St. Vil (37) tells his interviewer, Zazil Davis-Vazquez (27), about his work in transgender rights advocacy in Haiti.

Tenzin Lhamo has had a wealth of nursing experience. She attended nursing school in India as an immigrant from Tibet. Her family came to the United States in 2006. Before graduating from St. Catherine University as an Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner...

Colleagues and friends Stephanie Hoffman (54) and Kelley Kellis (47) discuss the meaning of home, houselessness in Kalamazoo, MI, and housing being a human right.

Colleagues Marine Kapanadze (29) and Jelena Hrnjak (41) discuss their involvement in Columbia University's Human Rights Advocates Program, the type of activism they engage in, and eastern European politics.

My work and health patient care.