Throughout the year, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic (OBCC) holds events for OBCC families and the community to connect.
OBCC Othello Clinic, 3939 S Othello St., Seattle, WA 98118
Parking is available in the garage.
OBCC will gather scholars, administrators, students, parents, local teachers, and community members to celebrate and reflect upon the University of Washington's Dr. Emile Pitre's Revolution to Evolution. Our intent is to remove the impulse to define the academy and community as separate worlds. Additionally, we hope to curate a transformative space to bolster community efforts to promote pathways into healthcare careers. We do so with the knowledge that "you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you must trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
Pitre's book will help us to "connect the dots" as it maps out the UW’s responses to local campus activism emerging from a national movement in the late 1960s that sought to address structural and cultural racism to send a generation of BIPOC students to graduate and professional school. A relentless grassroots leader, college administrator, and chemistry professor, Pitre's own boots-on-the-ground perspective led to his being considered an "elder statesman" whose career was defined by the mantra "We Know, We Care, We Act." In honoring his legacy, we invite academics, community members, and our students to participate in a conversation to consider paths toward restoring our academic/community ecosystem.
OBCC Othello Clinic, 3939 S Othello St., Seattle, WA 98118
Parking is available in the garage.
OBCC Othello Clinic, 3939 S Othello St., Seattle, WA 98118
Parking is available in the garage.
Participants will use writing and visual art to describe their experiences of living with, or caring for those, with various autoimmune diseases, highlighting the emotional, social and physical relationships between chronic illness, mental health, and healthcare disparities especially for those in communities of color, including Latinx, Black/African-American, Indigenous, and Asian Pacific Islanders.
Suzanne Edison, MA, MFA, is a poet, educator, former therapist, and mom to a young adult in remission from Juvenile Myositis (JM). She has been writing about, and publishing work about her journey with JM, as well as teaching writing workshops to teens, caregivers and medical providers for 15 years centered around the many aspects of living with and caring for those with autoimmune diseases.
Suzanne shares more about the workshops in this video.
Cultural Innovator Carol Rashawnna Williams, is a Professional Visual artist, musician, and mother of 2. She has spent more than 20 years utilizing art methodologies to pro-actively shift systems in business, education and at the government and institutional levels. She lives with health-related issues tied to environmental and hereditary influences. Carol has won many awards for her artwork and environmental work in BIPOC communities.