On this episode, SunAh talks with Dr. Kati Barahona-Lopez, an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Kati discusses why how we talk about immigration matters and the expectations we have for immigrants to self-disclose trauma in order to access social services.

On this episode, SunAh welcomes Mia Keeys, the Director of Health Equity Policy and Advocacy of the American Medical Association. Mia explains the differences between health inequalities and health disparities and then shares the policies and practices that are being implemented to advance health equity.

November is National Adoption Month, and on this episode, SunAh is joined by Dr. Katie Bozek, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and Dr. Carla Goar, an associate professor of Sociology at Kent State University and adoption researcher. Katie provides insights into recent adoption headlines, giving context to our current cultural (mis)understandings of transracial adoption. Carla discusses her research with white adoptive parents to transracially adopted children.

On this first episode of “Let’s Grab Coffee,” SunAh sits down with Dr. Rashawn Ray, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, a Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The two discuss some of the defining social issues of 2020 – health and police-civilian interactions.