Santanna Hernandez: We Will Get There
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04/18/21 • 84 min
In this episode, Yotakahron chats with fellow medical student Santanna Hernandez. Santanna is Dene from the Liidlii Kue Nation who was raised on Sto:lo traditional territory. She is mother of 4 kiddos, a first-year medical student at the University of Calgary, and an advisor on the ii'taa'poh'to'p student advisory circle. Together they discuss Santanna's journey towards medical school, the barriers put in place and the traumatic experiences of being an Indigenous learner in medicine.
If you're wanting to reach out, you can find Santanna on twitter at @SMHernande and Yotakahron at @yotakahron.
You can find more information about Heartberry Podcast at their website: www.heartberrypodcast.com and be sure to check them out on Twitter at @heartberrypod and Instagram at @heartberrypodcast! If you want to email them, they can be reached at [email protected].
Original artwork: Shanna Peltier
Producer: Yotakahron Jonathan
Mixing: Logie Bradley
In this episode, Yotakahron chats with fellow medical student Santanna Hernandez. Santanna is Dene from the Liidlii Kue Nation who was raised on Sto:lo traditional territory. She is mother of 4 kiddos, a first-year medical student at the University of Calgary, and an advisor on the ii'taa'poh'to'p student advisory circle. Together they discuss Santanna's journey towards medical school, the barriers put in place and the traumatic experiences of being an Indigenous learner in medicine.
If you're wanting to reach out, you can find Santanna on twitter at @SMHernande and Yotakahron at @yotakahron.
You can find more information about Heartberry Podcast at their website: www.heartberrypodcast.com and be sure to check them out on Twitter at @heartberrypod and Instagram at @heartberrypodcast! If you want to email them, they can be reached at [email protected].
Original artwork: Shanna Peltier
Producer: Yotakahron Jonathan
Mixing: Logie Bradley
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In this episode, Yotakahron catches up with her friend Daniel Hayden over Zoom (*note the sound quality). Daniel is from the Comanche Nation and is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies plant pathology. Daniel’s work recognizes the highly diverse cropping systems of Indigenous Peoples and he seeks to use his research to help aid Indigenous growers in their crop production for food sovereignty initiatives. They discuss problems in academia, studying plants is like, how COVID has changed things, and a few other tangents.
If you're interested in looking at the list of land grant institutions that Daniel was discussing, here is a list: www.landgrabu.org
You can find more information about Heartberry Podcast at their website: www.heartberrypodcast.com and be sure to check them out on Twitter at @heartberrypod and Instagram at @heartberrypodcast! If you want to email them, they can be reached at [email protected].
Original artwork: Shanna Peltier
Producer: Yotakahron Jonathan
Mixing: Logie Bradley
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