Hi, everyone. This is Michelle Agoon-Wale, and welcome back to another episode of the Anti-Racism and Medicine series of the Clinical Problem Solvers podcast.

Today's episode entitled Counter Spaces in Medicine,

Finding Safe Spaces and Redefining Value. As always, our goal on this podcast is to equip our listeners

at all levels of training with the consciousness and tools to practice anti-racism in their

health professions career. I'm very excited today to be joined by Lash Nolan and Naomi Fields.

Lash, I'll let you tell the people about this special Black Girl Magic episode and introduce

our guests. Yes, Michelle, thank you so much for the turnover. And I am so excited for this Black

Girl Magic episode. Naomi, I know you are too.

It's great to have you too.

Hey, everyone.

I'm so hyped to be here.

We got some great stuff in store.

I'm so excited to be in community with y'all today.

And really this episode came out of us having this real genuine conversation about how important it was for us to have safe spaces within medicine and within academic medicine in healthcare fields and how difficult it can be to find those spaces and really how the two phenomenal guests that we've invited to join us today have found ways to creatively create that safe space both at point, tried to do so within the confines of academic medicine, but found really that safe space outside of that and thinking creatively about ways that we can feel inspired to think out of the box in that way as well.

So just really looking forward to this conversation.

And I'm thrilled to introduce

our first guest, Dr. Oni Blackstock. Dr. O'Ne Blackstock is a primary care and HIV doctor and

researcher who recently served as the assistant commissioner for the New York City Health Department's

Bureau of HIV, where she led the city's response to ending the HIV

epidemic. She is the founder and executive director of health justice, a consulting practice

that supports health organizations to center health equity in the workplace and reduce health

inequities in the communities they serve. She was previously an assistant professor

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