Sickle Cell Podcast Series-Intersection of Race & Health

Thanks for listening in to the Social Entrepreneurship Now podcast where our guests speak up and out about creating equity, diversity and inclusion in the systems they are in.  This is a special series with the Metropolitan Seattle Sickle Cell Task Force and our sponsors the Rotary Clubs of Ballard, Magnolia Mercer Island and Seattle. 

In this special series we will bring together sickle cell patients and healthcare providers and use SC as a lens to explore racial bias in the U.S. healthcare system.  Please subscribe to the podcast @ www.diversityandinclusioncoach.com to keep listening as our guests share their perspective, pain points and journey. 

Special Guests are: John Masembe and Alix Dassler

Show Highlights:

• John explains how life rotates between home and school and how life can seem somewhat directionless when you have sickle cell. 
• John now looks at journey as not a weakness, but as a survivor.  John explores how surviving is about resilience through duress.  He also discusses how sickle cell is a disability.  
• Alix is a Nurse Practitioner who works with patients with sickle cell at the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic in Seattle, WA.  She identifies as white and female and wanted the audience to understand why it matters to say this up front.  
• Alix further explores privilege, racial equity and duality of being white and her patients being black and brown. 

For more information about sickle cell and to connect with our show guests, please go to the Metropolitan Sickle Cell Task Force @  www.mssctf.org 

For more information about Nikki, please email: [email protected]