The Equity+ Podcast has the hard conversations needed to do the work to advance health equity. This season we’ll discuss topics like healthcare access, disrupting White Supremacy culture, community led change, BIPOC leadership and professional development, and more.
Season Two
Episode 13: Accessing Gender Affirming Care in North Carolina | Listen Here
In this episode, we hear from Haven Oxenreider, Data & Software Lead at Pisgah Legal Services, who shares their experiences as a trans person in North Carolina, what it was like for him to access gender affirming care, and what resources are available to people who are interested in seeking gender affirming care for themselves.
Episode 12: Medical Debt & What To Do About It | Listen Here
In this episode, we hear from Rebecca Cerese, Policy Advocate at the NC Justice Center, who shares important information about medical debt in the US and North Carolina, and some great tips on how you can get help if you have it.
Episode 11: Host a Community Medicaid Enrollment Event! | Listen Here
In this episode we’ll introduce the newest addition to the Care Share staff, our Medicaid Expansion BIPOC Community Engagement Coordinator, Shakira Greene. Shakira is going to tell us about her role helping CBOs serving BIPOC populations host enrollment events to get more people connected to Medicaid Expansion, as well as how her background in healthcare led to her passion for health equity and affordable healthcare for all.
Episode 10: The Power of Community Created Solutions | Listen Here
In this episode, we talk with Daniella Runyambo, Co-Executive Director, Programs & Community Impact at Refugee Community Partnership about RCP’s community led efforts to make language justice a reality for their members.
Episode 9: What Should You Know About Medicaid Expansion? | Listen Here
In this episode, we talk to Nick Riggs, Director of the NC Navigator Consortium, April Morgan, Outreach & Enrollment Manager at NC Community Health Center Association, and Care Share’s Medicaid Expansion Outreach & Education Coordinator, Hollis Smith, about what you should know about Medicaid Expansion!
Season One
Episode 8: Creating Equitable Internships | Listen Here
In this episode, we’ll hear a conversation between our Director of Innovation and Capacity Building, Jalah Clayton, our former Director of Community Engagement, Shaunessy Lofton and the inaugural interns of our Equitable Health Leadership Pathways Program, Jasmine Riddle and Claire Hopkins about their experiences with both being mentors and mentees while at Care Share Health Alliance.
Episode 7: Hearts & Hands Food Pantry with Kenya Joseph | Listen Here
In this episode we’ll hear a conversation between our Director of Innovation and Capacity Building, Jalah Clayton, and Kenya Joseph of Heart and Hands Food Pantry, located in Mecklenburg County, about the unique approach the organization takes to addressing food insecurity in their community.
You can support Hearts & Hands Food Pantry via their Amazon Wishlist.
Episode 6: The Only One in the Room | Listen Here
In this episode, CSHA Executive Director, Weyling White, talks about what it’s like to be “The Only One in the Room” as Black man in public health and healthcare with our guests Brandon Allison, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Cornell P. Wright, owner of Wrightway Equity Solutions, and Omari Richins, Program Officer for Health Improvement in North Carolina at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.
Learn more about our guests in our Show Notes
Note: Cornell is a member of Care Share’s board of directors.
Episode 5: Yesenia Cuello, NC FIELD & NC’s Farmworker Communities | Listen Here
This episode features an interview with Yesenia Cuello who shares what is was like for her to grow up in rural Eastern North Carolina while working in tobacco fields with her mother and sisters, and how that inspires the work she does today advocating for farmworkers and their families as the Executive Director of NC Field.
Note: Yesenia is currently a member of Care Share’s board of directors, but was not at the time of the interview.
Episode 4: Affordable Housing: The Cost Helping Communities Get & Stay Housed | Listen Here
Join Care Share and our featured guests Dr. Sue Ledford of Four Square Community Action, Charis Blackmon of West Side Community Land Trust, and S.J. Hightower and Hope Williams of Legal Aid of North Carolina for our a discussion on the different ways their organizations approach their work to help individuals and communities get and remain in affordable housing.
Episode 3: Connecting Communities to Health w/ Honey Yang Estrada | Listen Here
In this episode, we talk to Honey Yang Estrada, President of the NC Community Health Worker Association (NCCHWA). We discuss her background and what brought her to CHW work, how CHWs help bridge the gap between their community members and healthcare systems, and how the NCCHWA truly centers equity in the support they provide their members.
Note: Honey is a member of Care Share’s Board of Directors.
Episode 2: Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson | Listen Here | Transcript
In this episode, we share an interview with Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson, originally recorded as part of NC BIPOC Leaders series published last year on our Care Share blog. Dr. Gibson shares how her life experiences have informed and inspired the incredible work she does at Peletah Ministries, the ministry she founded with her husband, Anthony, which has included mental health support, disaster relief and a trauma informed k-12 school.
Note: This episode deals with the loss of a child.
Episode 1: Access to Care & Dismantling White Supremacy Culture | Listen Here | Transcript
The first episode of the Equity+ Podcast introduces Care Share and our staff through a discussion about how our lived experiences with equitable healthcare and White supremacy culture affects our work.
