Photography

This image was shot on a Pixel 4A at the Kalalau Trail in Kauai. After what felt like years of isolation and indoors living, the chance to be outside and in the presence of fresh air, roaring tides, gloomy caverns, and crystal sand, was like entering an entirely new world. The figure in the image represents the sheer, unrestrained joy of being totally present in that new world.

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CATHERINE LOCKMILLER (she/her) is a Health Science Librarian and Diversity Fellow at Northern Arizona University. She prioritizes her work by focusing on health information literacy, analyzing the intersections between critical theory and librarianship, and most of all, providing a platform to discuss health inequities faced by transgender and gender diverse populations in the United States.

This image was captured at the height of the 2020 global Black Lives Matter protests in June. This was also pride month, a time for LGBTQ people to celebrate their diversity. Pride that year became about celebrating melanin of the BIPOC queer community, and I wanted to contribute to that movement.

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MARCUS CHILDS is an MS2 at the UACOMP currently earning his dual degree in the MD/MPH program. He has a passion for serving and uplifting the underserved communities of all races, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations. He finds joy in creating symbolic images that incorporate medicine and humanity.

This image was shot on a Fujifilm XT-20 (18-55 mm F 2.8 - 4) at the National Museum of the Arts in Santiago, Chile. It depicts dancers and musicians performing a traditional Chilean dance while a dog wanders among the performers. I am drawn to the physicality of the dancers as they hold difficult poses and move in unison to the many instrumental cues playing alongside them. I also find the intrusion of the dog to be evocative of the way that our most organized and carefully laid plans can be dramatically altered by a new — and sometimes joyful — visitor in our midst.

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CATHERINE LOCKMILLER (she/her) is a Health Science Librarian and Diversity Fellow at Northern Arizona University. She prioritizes her work by focusing on health information literacy, analyzing the intersections between critical theory and librarianship, and most of all, providing a platform to discuss health inequities faced by transgender and gender diverse populations in the United States

Title: Welcome Sign

This image was shot on a Fujifilm XT-20 (18-55 mm F 2.8 - 4) in Valparaiso, Chile.

When you’re queer, you learn to home in on signs of belonging and inclusion. I can’t think of a single symbol that evokes that homing desire more universally and more completely than the rainbow. Even outside the United States, the rainbow has taken on this meaning, and wherever I go, its presence brings comfort and pride that I am around others who not only accept me but welcome me.

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CATHERINE LOCKMILLER (she/her) is a Health Science Librarian and Diversity Fellow at Northern Arizona University. She prioritizes her work by focusing on health information literacy, analyzing the intersections between critical theory and librarianship, and most of all, providing a platform to discuss health inequities faced by transgender and gender diverse populations in the United States.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. The vast beauty of nature contradicted with the difficult times experienced by all those across the world today truly reinforces the notion that we all must come together as one.

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DR. LISA R. SHAH-PATEL is the Director of Career and Professional Advising at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. She completed a seven-year combined Biomedical Sciences/Doctor of Medicine program and received her MD degree at the UCLA School of Medicine. She complete her radiology residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, and her fellowship in Breast Imaging at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, going to the beach, skiing, and travelling.

MELANIE CALDERWOOD is a Coordinator at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- Phoenix with the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and three of the Certificates of Distinction: Rural Health, Service and Community Health, and Primary Care Scholars. She’s passionate about rural America. When she’s not enjoying the great food of the valley, she’s in Colorado at her sister’s farm playing with her nieces and nephews and the cows.

When we live in times such as these, it’s always important to find that what centers you. This picture represents two of these: my roots and the light. Going back to my ranch roots regularly reminds me who I am and the basics of life: faith, family, life, death, food, water, and soil. I’ll get to a point that I just have to go get my hands dirty on the farm. The moon is light in the darkness, and it’s the same celestial being no matter where you are in the world. So when you’re lonely at night missing those important to you, remember to look up because they are looking at the same moon, too. It’s important that we all find those moments and experiences to ground us and give us perspective.

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MELANIE CALDERWOOD is a Coordinator at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- Phoenix with the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and three of the Certificates of Distinction: Rural Health, Service and Community Health, and Primary Care Scholars. She’s passionate about rural America. When she’s not enjoying the great food of the valley, she’s in Colorado at her sister’s farm playing with her nieces and nephews and the cows.

Every morning is a new day!

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MELANIE CALDERWOOD is a Coordinator at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- Phoenix with the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and three of the Certificates of Distinction: Rural Health, Service and Community Health, and Primary Care Scholars. She’s passionate about rural America. When she’s not enjoying the great food of the valley, she’s in Colorado at her sister’s farm playing with her nieces and nephews and the cows.