Through community-academic partnerships, we organize medical students, public health students, healthcare providers, and community members to catalyze the structural change of academic spaces by creating educational curricula that leverage data and invoke critical frameworks that demonstrate how structural racism and racialized capitalism (re)produce health inequity.
Chapter name: Twin Cities Chapter
Chapter location: Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Language: English
Organizing statement: As members of the Twin Cities Chapter of the Campaign Against Racism, we collectively acknowledge George Floyd’s murder by the Minneapolis Police Department as another abhorrent outcome of over 400 years of racial capitalism and settler colonialism. As health workers and educators, we commit to personal and professional interrogation of our complicity in perpetuating systems of oppression that devalue Black and indigenous life.
We seek to build a culture with practices that hold us and our professions accountable to our complicity, expands our capacity to hold discomfort and deeply listen, and centers coalition-building with community partners. We recognize that this involves cognitive, bodily, relational, and organizational work that collectively strengthens us to support the struggle for police abolition, to participate in the care of black and other marginalized communities in partnership with other healers, and to support mutual aid networks in the Twin Cities.
Program Highlights
1. zAmya: Utilizing forum theater and Theater of the Oppressed alongside zAmya to elevate narratives at the intersection of housing insecurity and healthcare access.
2. REP: We are in community with REP (Relationships Evolving Possibilities) and hope to build on their vision of abolition through localized pods of mutual aid and transformative crisis support within community networks.
Key Contact: Nasreen Quadri | Chapter Representative
