This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

Joining us for the first time, she is a psychiatrist and she has a podcast called the C-suite

Confident. Let me welcome Dr. Nicole Washington. Welcome to the Karen Hunter show.

Thank you for having me. Thanks for coming through. Before we get

into I invited you here today I just want to know a little bit about you. Where are you

from? You got a southern twang. Sounds like you come from from a nice warm place.

Well, I am originally from Louisiana,

graduated from Southern University,

shout out to all those Jaguars out there listening, and I have been in Oklahoma in the Tulsa area for the past 20 years.

So I've been here in Tulsa.

Why did you go to Tulsa is a as a hot spot right now. There's a lot of conversation

around Tulsa. We've been talking a lot about reparations. We've been talking

about Tulsa and Black Wall Street since I started on on Sirius XM and I've been talking about it before then. But moving to

Tulsa as a person not from Tulsa, did you come in with the understanding of what you were

moving into? You know, someone bought me a book when I graduated from Southern. I came here for

medical school and someone for graduation I can't even remember who it was

purchased me a book about the race right. And reading that was my first introduction to Tosa. I don't even know if I could

have honestly found Oklahoma on a map before I came here to interview because I just

had no real knowledge of the area. But reading that book gave me a bit of a framework to work

from, you know, once I got here.

Do you feel the trauma because, you know, I was talking with the attorney De Mario

Solomon Simmons who is from there and didn't know the history because they didn't

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