Nohely graduated with her PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and Design from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation, titled “Everyday Economies: Narratives and Negotiations of Cultural Economic Practices in Langley Park, Maryland,” focused on how Langley Park epitomizes everyday economies.

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Project Title: Networks of Care: Health, Resilience, and Social Justice in an Immigrant Community

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Leslie is a PhD candidate in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, where she designs community-engaged, culturally relevant interventions to support Black birthing people. Her research bridges Black feminist thought, service design, and health justice, centering community knowledge as both method and outcome. She is the creator of Cradles & Culture™, a community baby shower initiative that affirms Black motherhood through care, culture, and connection.​

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Project Title: The M/others Who Raised Us​​

Socially engaged, multi-disciplinary artist Melani N. Douglass is the founder of the award-winning Family Arts Museum - a migratory institution focused on the celebration of family as fine art, home as curated space, and community as gallery.
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Project Title: Parlor for the People Podcast: Intergenerational Healing Stories from Washington, DC

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Dr. Caroline R. Efird (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Health at Georgetown University. Her research, publications, and teaching focus on addressing social and structural drivers of racialized health inequities. Read more...

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Project Title: Listening for Health: Exploring connection, community, and well-being as a way to improve healthcare delivery in DC

 

Abigail Higgins is a co-founder and senior editor at The 51st, D.C.'s worker-led, nonprofit local newsroom. She edits breaking news, features, and accountability journalism and her reporting includes contributing to a Pulitzer-Prize-winning series on the opioid epidemic’s dramatically disproportionate impact on older Black men in partnership with The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times. She is also the First Vice President of the National Writers Union. Read more...

 

Project Title: The 51st Health Equity Beat​​

 

Monique A. Major, Ph.D. is a Master Instructor in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. She is an alumna of Howard University where she earned her B.S. in Psychology with a minor in painting. From there, she earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from Howard as well. She conducts research about creativity, its relationship to health and well-being, and creative identity development. Of particular interest is the critical and protective role of the arts for Black survival and well-being throughout the diaspora. Read more...

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Project Title: Quilts for the Heart: Using Quilting to Share Hypertension Experiences

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Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds’ research bridges ethical inquiry across the humanities, social sciences, and medical practice. They are Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies, Director of the Disability Studies Program, and Faculty in the Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University.  Read more...

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Project Title: Promoting Health Equity through a Networked Model of Disability

Nicole E. Stratchan is a clinician, scholar, minister, and consultant. She currently serves as a neonatal therapist at Howard University Hospital and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, where she delivers neurodevelopmentally supportive, family-centered care to infants and toddlers.  Read more...

 

Project Title: The Black Church Infant, Child, and Family Network

 

Dr. Gloria Washington is an empathetic technologist that is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Howard University in Washington, DC. She runs the Affective Biometrics Lab with students. She is also the Director of the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute. Read more...

 

Project Title: Towards Psychiatric Interventions to Foster Empathy and Reduce Racist and Biased Patient Interactions for Schizophrenia