Aleshia Williams has been an intern through InterVarsity in Summer 2023. She is a rising third-year student at UVA, majoring in African and African American Studies. Over the last few months, she’s been able...
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 –...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
By Dora Muhammad, VICPP Congregation Engagement Director — Medicaid turns 55 tomorrow (July 30, 2020). For more than half a century, this federal program has improved the health of millions by providing affordable health care...
By Terry O’Connor, a nurse at Novant Health UVA, Prince William Hospital and Health Care Hope Ambassador — I was called for a time such as this. This is what I signed up for. ...
VICPP is grateful for all the good work the Governor and his team are doing, but we remain concerned that not enough protection is being provided to Virginia's essential workers. As we talk about...
By Dora Muhammad, Health Equity Manager, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — For the past year, I have worked across the Commonwealth of Virginia to educate congregations and community members about Medicaid expansion...