User:Gobblehook

Gobblehook is the family name of the Displaced Persons, as mispronounced by Mrs. Shortley in Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Displaced Person."

Ms. Gobblehook's biography
I am a health worker and  adult educator from Louisiana.

I have taught community-based health work classes to student, neighborhood, church, and issues-based groups; and have spoken on power disparities and health outcomes at the 24th and 25th annual reproductive rights conferences hosted by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire College.

I am the co-founder (with South African freedom fighter  Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo) of an organization through which I consult with health and community-based groups to promote approaches to health work that strengthen the fabric of the community.

As a street medic, I have provided first aid support at fourteen political actions, including the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. and the 2006 Great Flood Commemoration March in New Orleans.

I ran an underground free health post in my inner-city neighborhood from 2003-2004, and currently assist in the development of a post- Katrina free integrative family medicine center I helped to found in September 2005.

I am a pre-nursing student, and a member of the United Church of Christ.

My heritage: I am the Pennsylvania German /  Appalachian granddaughter, grandniece, and great-grandniece of  coal miners from Schuylkill county.

I am working on

 * Street medic
 * List of street medic organizations

I have contributed to

 * Barefoot doctors
 * Deacons for Defense and Justice
 * German American
 * Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Native speaker
eu:Txantiloi:·Hizkuntza (ru)

To do

 * Buffalo Field Campaign
 * Declaration of Alma-Ata (1978)
 * Community health worker
 * Do no harm
 * Health post
 * Integrative medicine
 * People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF)
 * Primary health care
 * Second line
 * Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Justice
 * Where There is No Doctor
 * Wilderness First Responder