Changing healthcare culture from the inside out. The more I learn about Claudine Gay and the tragic death of Eddie Bernice Johnson the more compelled I feel to recognize “resilience” as the silver lining to a very ominous cloud.

☣️ The strongest and most accomplished among us are often the most persecuted and exploited.

☢️ The qualities we admire most in another are frequently born from circumstances we try to stay blissfully ignorant of.

In conditions like these resilience is not just a virtue, or a sophisticated form of energy management for change agility, it’s an act of resistance.

But what happens when staying in the game takes a toll that eventually takes your life? We don’t have to look very hard at health disparity stats to see that stresses associated with living a life of active protest is bad for your health, however inspirational it may seem to those looking in from the outside.

Health Equity = What we do + What we refuse to allow.