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GirlTrek: When Black Women Walk Together, Things Change
Season 1, Ep. 11
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Morgan Dixon and her best friend Vanessa Garrison wanted to fix a systemic issue: Black women getting sicker and dying younger due to centuries of racial injustice. But they didn’t go straight to the healthcare system or to the many institutions plagued by systemic racism. Instead, they convinced their community to walk everyday together. Today, GirlTrek is the largest social movement for Black women in the country.
In this episode, we will learn a bottom up approach to systems change. One that begins with one's community and slowly moves toward institutional and policy change.
Featuring T. Morgan Dixon, Co-Founder & CEO GirlTrek and Dr. Gary Bennett, Professor and Dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University.
If you want to learn more about GirlTrek visit girltrek.org.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
TedTalk: The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change
Podcast: Black History Boot Camp - Georgia Gilmore episode
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