Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Race, Gender, and Social Justice

 Talking Public Health with Public Health Professional and Educator Nicole Vick

Season 3 Episode 1

Nicole Vick

Welcome to Season 3!
In this episode Public Health professional Nicole Vick and I talk about how public health disparities are showing up in sharp relief in a country trying to combat a pandemic. What these disparities tell us about what needs to change, the challenges that exist to that change, and how growing up in South Central LA has impacted her perspective on public health.

We also talk about Black maternal mortality and the biases in our medical systems. Nicole’s wisdom is badly needed right now. I’m so glad I got to talk with her.

Nicole Vick is a public health professional, educator, civic leader, and image consultant who has spent the last fifteen years providing tools and strategies to stakeholders, community-based organizations, students, and residents to improve health and prevent disease in some of Los Angeles County’s most underserved communities.

Nicole is the author of the memoir, Pushing Through: Finding the Light in Every Lesson.

For a written transcript of this conversation click here.

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Harmonica music courtesy of a friend.