Making Things Make Sense with Eileen Milian and Christian Malachy Porter
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Everyone is talking about vaccine distribution. An important part of the story is equity. Today, Cal and Cathy welcome Eileen Milian and Christian Malachy Porter of the We Got Us Project, a Boston-based organization seeking "to empower our communities with accurate science information and public health resources by connecting Black community members and organizations with trusted Black healthcare professionals and students."
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About Our Guests:
Eileen Milien was born in Haiti and raised in Boston. She is currently a junior attending Emmanuel College and studying biology. She is committed to solving the challenges facing marginalized communities from a public health perspective. She serves as the Representative of Diversity and Inclusion on the Emmanuel College Student Government Association. She works as a research assistant in a neuroscience lab at Harvard University. She also volunteers at a reading program with Boston Public Schools. In her free time, she enjoys reading, long walks and watching mystery documentaries. She is very excited to be working on the We Got Us team and working to create actionable change to benefit our community.
Christian Malachy Porter is a sophomore at Harvard College in Dunster House jointly concentrating in the History of Science and African-American Studies and also pursuing a secondary field in Global Health & Health Policy. His experience as a native of Atlanta, Georgia has made him deeply passionate about the healthcare concerns of marginalized communities, and he has become committed to solving these problems from both biomedical and public health perspectives as a future physician.
Aside from his role on the education team at the We Got Us project, Christian currently serves as Vice President of the Harvard Black Premedical Society, the
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