to have issue. the stakes are people's health and people's lives. and i think the pandemic that just disproportionately harmed communities of color should sharpen the calls to diversify the field and continue to open the pipeline to more and more doctors of color. >> because you can study this question of inequity as an academic question, i have to imagine being out there on the front lines at the height of this pandemic it came into sharp focus in very real and practical way? >> truly did. and i'm a proud hispanic lebanese woman. for me it really hit home very hard seeing family, people who looked like my family members getting very sick and having to take care of them from that. and not having the opportunity to have all of the staff around you speak your primary language. and so that's where my spanish skills came into play there. and one of the reasons why i got