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Sacred Memories: Confronting Historic Racial and Religious Violence to Counter Contemporary Injustices 

By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager On May 1, 1865, formerly enslaved Blacks in Charleston, S.C. honored 257 Union soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a...

Read more June 2, 2021 at 2:44 pm grayorbit

The Virginia Woman at the Foundation of Protecting Patient Autonomy

By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager PHOTO CAPTION: Dora Muhammad with four granddaughters of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks and family at the 2017 symposium, “Issues of Blood: Rights & Responsibilities –...

Read more April 28, 2021 at 8:41 am grayorbit

Escorting the Elephant Out of the COVID Vaccine Room

By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager PHOTO: VICPP Health Equity Program Manager Dora Muhammad participates in a state-run pop-up vaccination clinic held at First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries...

Read more April 6, 2021 at 7:37 pm grayorbit

A Pathway to Citizenship is a Health and Justice Intervention for Undocumented Essential Workers

By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager More than 100 people participated in our Day of All People listening session held Jan. 21st with immigrant leaders of LA RED (Liberation, Action,...

Read more February 10, 2021 at 11:50 am grayorbit

We’re Still Pushing for Prenatal Care for All Mothers

By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — In several days, Christians will culminate the holy observance of Advent in celebration of the birth of...

Read more December 23, 2020 at 6:31 am grayorbit

Hope Heroes: Nurse Alexis Smith

By Alexis Smith, a nurse at the Kaiser Permanente satellite emergency room in Tysons Corner, Va. I don’t know how I got COVID. The first patient I swabbed for the coronavirus was in March,...

Read more October 31, 2020 at 8:46 am grayorbit

Lawmakers Turned Their Backs

Our very own Erin Steigleder, Health Policy Analyst and Advocate for the Center’sfor Virginia Consumer Voices for Healthcare program was published in the Richmond Times Dispatch over the weekend. See her Op-Ed below: Richmond Times-Dispatch...

Read more June 23, 2014 at 3:51 pm grayorbit
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