Ujimaa is a Swahili word that refers to collective work and responsibility. Located in Chicago, Ujimaa Medics is a community-based organization that provides critical health care training to the community, in support of the people who live there. Part 1 of this conversation dives deep into questions of health justice, access to care, and the need for open-eyed awareness of structural racism's effect on health care. **********Check out Ujimaa Medics here: www.umedics.org**********Ujimaa Medics will be part of Just Care: Social Justice in Health Care, October 9-10. Get more information here: https://www.healwell.org/just-care-2021**********About Our Guest:Martine Caverl is one of the founders of Ujimaa Medics. UMedics are "Black community organizers, activists, pastors, healthcare professionals, mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, cousins, and friends of African Descent in Chicago." Support the show

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