Author: Chiara Atoyebi
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I Can Attest To The Fact That Brain Tumors Suck, Which Is Why I Go Hard For The Environment
If you logged onto this site a few years back, you will notice that it has gone through several iterations. Initially this website began as a way to bring awareness to pediatric brain tumors and to share how I used art as therapy for my grief journey. I still do. In 2015, my 3-year old…
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5 Things To Consider Before Getting Your Residential Solar Panels, It’s Simpler Than You Think
One of the main ideologies of sustainable living involves everyone doing their part and giving space for our world will begin to recover organically.
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Why the Solution for Food Justice in the Black Community Means Reacquainting Itself with Its Village
Activists in Washington D.C.’s Ward 7 are raising the bar, and awareness, on the city’s ongoing food insecurity issue. By Chiara Atoyebi When I was a small child living in Detroit, my mother would drop me off at my grandmother’s house before heading out to her night shift at Henry Ford Hospital. At the time,…
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It’s Officially April, Time To Revisit Those New Year’s Resolutions. How Are Yours Stacking Up?
Today is Wednesday, and as a mom who also works from home with her kids and a toddler learning to potty train—the days often roll into the night. The busyness of life alone is enough to swallow a person up whole. But, I’ve mastered a technique to share so that it doesn’t. Can you relate?…
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The March of Dimes Just Released An Enhanced Training To Address Disparities in Healthcare, Just In Time For Black Maternal Health Week
Things are looking up for mothers and babies in the fight to reduce chronic discrimination in healthcare, specifically in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Today the March of Dimes released its enhanced implicit bias training to address disparities in healthcare. The newly configured “Awareness to Action: Dismantling Bias in Maternal and Infant Healthcare™” available virtually as a…
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Monday Musings: Febraury 14, 2022
This morning while I was journaling, I began working on a piece about networking and managing core belief while excelling in capitalism. If that’s possible. There are some harsh realities surrounding capitalisms #stayingpower. I delve into those deeper on Medium. Ideas about #democracy, making things equitable, and doing the work of our own hands. Since money is…
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A Vision For the Future: The NMAAHC’s Searchable Museum
On November 18th the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture launched a comprehensive interactive digital platform, the Searchable Museum. This is a visually engaging and dynamic platform that is intuitive for users. Upon the very first click, viewers are immersed within a labyrinth of information uniquely chronicling the trajectory of the African American lived experience beginning…
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Words Formed The World: Kenturah Davis
I first learned of Kenturah Davis’ work while perusing the SCAD Museum of Art’s most recent offerings. Davis is currently on exhibition the museum now until December. I was drawn her graphite drawing “Meditation” immediately. The drawing had a certain familiarity of a family member or a someone I once knew. In order to understand…