SooJin and Hannah round out this 4-part series by talking with Hannah’s cousin, Laura Holsen. Laura reflects on how she used to notice interracial couples and wonder what that experience must be like. Then she fell in love with and married someone from a different racial background! Laura’s relationship with her spouse, Sunny, has greatly shifted her awareness around privilege and motivates her to do more within her spheres of influence. In her role as a clinical neuroscientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Laura is actively learning about and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We discuss how the field of psychiatry has a long way to go to become antiracist. Ultimately, this conversation inspires us to reconnect with our personal histories and respective ancestral healing practices in order to expand the ways in which we remedy illness, address trauma, and repair harm.

 Resources:

Visions, Inc

Gather  - documentary film on Netflix

This Land is Their Land  by David Silverman

Mass General Brigham - United Against Racism: https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/who-we-are/united-against-racism

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones: https://www.msm.edu/about_us/FacultyDirectory/CommunityHealthPreventiveMedicine/CamaraJones/index.php

Dr. Tamarra James-Todd: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tamarra-james-todd/

National Institutes of Health DEI strategic plan: https://diversity.nih.gov/about-us/strategic-plan