It’s a perfect storm of long-standing problems, worker burnout and staff turnover that have worsened as Covid-19 waves repeatedly hit health care workers.
Francesca Menes was hand-picked by destiny to lead a movement started by Ella Baker and echoed by Fannie Lou Hamer.
Two decades earlier, a very young Menes stood amidst a crowd of protestors with her mother at a rally in Little Haiti, barely able to utter a phrase in English and bewildered by her community calling for stability in their homeland, during the time Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitiâs first democratically elected president, had been ousted.
When you embrace this work, activism seeps into your soul.
Now 35, Menes stands as a devoted immigration activist and political educator who brings power to the people by teaching them how to leverage their collective voice, vote and advocate for public policy to effectuate change.
An estimated 15 billion condoms are manufactured each year and 750 million people use them.
The public health similarities between asking someone to wear a condom and wearing a mask. And how to reach different communities with more effective messaging around public health issues.
The idea of getting together for the holidays really begs a metaphor: how we think about practicing safe gathering can be a lot like how we think about practicing safe sex. People are looking for methods where they can still see their families and try to keep each other safe … a sort-of condom for the pandemic, if you will.