Movement & Organizing Library

Birthed out of the For Us All campaign, the Movement & Organizing Library is a living collection of research, tools, stories, and frameworks for health professional students and leaders who are organizing for justice, dignity, and care.

Whether you are designing a course, leading a campaign, or just looking for language to name what you are experiencing, this library is here to support you. We encourage you to take what you need and share what you learn.

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A decade of grassroots pathway programming: Saturday Academy at New York University College of Dentistry

Cheryline Pezzullo DDS, Eugenia E. Mejia PhD, Lorel E. Burns DDS, MS
2023
  • Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This article presents the history and outcomes of a successful decade of continuous, grassroots, pathway programming at an individual dental institution.

A Health Professions Pipeline for Underrepresented Students: Middle and High School Initiatives

Granville E. Wrensford, Kerry-Ann Stewart & Marja M. Hurley
2018
  • Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This article discusses a pathway program developed by the Department of Health Career Opportunity Programs at UConn Health. The purpose of the program was to identify and develop a diverse applicant pool of students who will eventually enter a health professions career with a focus on medicine and dental medicine. Program elements include a 30-week academic year Saturday Academy and a 6-week summer academic enrichment program aimed at preparing students for successful entrance into college, and a Parental Seminar Series for parents. The article discusses outcomes achieved and long-term impact of the program for shared learning.

A scoping review on social justice education in current undergraduate dental curricula

Nioushah Noushi, Ninoska Enriquez, Shahrokh Esfandiari
2020
  • Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
  • Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
A recent shift in educational components within healthcare has pushed dentistry toward a greater understanding of the role of social components on oral health. There has also been an increased awareness of inappropriate conduct among dental students. This scoping review was conducted to determine if, how, and when social-justice-oriented education has been incorporated into dental curricula worldwide.

Achieving Student Diversity in Dental Schools: A Model That Works

Ernestine S. Lacy, Ann L. McCann, Barbara H. Miller, Eric Solomon, Jayne S. Reuben
2012
  • Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Diversifying the dental profession is important for improving access to care for underrepresented groups, and student diversity provides better educational experiences for all students. This paper discusses Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry’s strategy for increasing the number of URM dentists, including creating a series of initiatives that together formed a successful comprehensive program addressing students’ awareness of and attraction to a dental career, academic enrichment, admissions, and graduation.

Activities to Deepen Your Power-Building Analysis

2022
  • Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
  • Skills: Network Building, Organizing, Policy Advocacy
  • Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This suite of resources and activities is designed for governmental health departments and agencies to dive into power: what it is, who holds it, and how to leverage and redistribute it to create more equitable and healthy communities.

Addressing the Minority Tax: Perspectives From Two Diversity Leaders on Building Minority Faculty Success in Academic Medicine

Kendall M. Campbell MD, José Rodríguez
2019
  • Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This Invited Commentary explores disparities in academic medicine, known as the minority tax, through the careers of 2 men in senior positions, who are underrepresented minorities in medicine (URMMs), with the goal of sharing real-world experiences that other URMM faculty can use to their benefit. The authors use their lived experiences to document the realities of various aspects of the minority tax (i.e., isolation, mentorship, diversity efforts, and clinical assignments) and introduce a new aspect of the minority tax that has affected both of their inner decision-making processes and personal ambitions: the gratitude tax.

Champion Spotlight

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