S2Ep6: Hamida Yusufzai: Serving Youth of Color with Love for Liberation

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We are especially excited to share this episode featuring Hamida Yusufzai, a community activist doing health justice work as the Program Manager of Banteay Srei, a community organization founded as a safe space for young Southeast Asian women who are engaged or at-risk of sexual exploitation in Oakland, California. As doctors, we believe it is important to step out of our ivory academic towers and uplift the work being done by community activists who intimately know issues of health equity on a daily, firsthand basis. Together, we talk more about Hamida’s journey into and through organizing and activism and why she calls her move to Oakland from the UK her homecoming. She drops gems on self-care as a daily practice and how future healthcare practitioners can avoid the quote “busyness” of everyday life to honor themselves and the patients they serve. Updates and news: (1) Woke WOC Docs Stickers! We are now selling Woke WOC Doc stickers! For only $5 you can get a 3x3 inch sticker of our logo. It’s perfect for your laptops, water bottles, guitar cases, skateboards, anything you want! Order at WokeWOCDocs.com. (2) Congrats to our co-host Bernie, the youngest ever recipient of National Minority Quality Forum’s 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health! More about her award here: http://www.nmqf.org/40-under-40-awardees/2019/lim Bio: Experience at Rape Crisis, Eaves for Women and Liverpool University provide Hamida with a multi sector perspective. She has a degree in Development Studies and has worked as a grassroots community organizer in various countries; she has a global understanding of violence against women. Currently, she is the Program Manager of Banteay Srei, Oakland (www.banteaysrei.org). Hamida has over 20 years of experience working in youth development and youth organizing with system impacted youth of color. She is an advocate for comprehensive services for CSEC and contributes to the enhancement of the intensive case management component used to address the economic and emotional needs of young women oppressed by sexual violence. Hamida is developing Banteay Srei’s training resources and best practice for professionals.