User:Grace-streetmedic

I am a health worker and  adult educator from New Orleans.

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 StreetMedic, 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 Common Ground Health Clinic, a post- Katrina free integrative family medicine center I helped to found in 2005-09.

I am also a pre-nursing student at Delgado Community College. My home congregation is St. Matthew Central United Church of Christ.

I am working on
Street medics

I have contributed to
Vietnam Veterans Against the War

to do

 * Community health worker
 * Do no harm
 * Health post
 * Integrative medicine
 * People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF)
 * Second line
 * Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Justice