# @yalesph on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-02-26T16:28:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Yale School of Public Health (@yalesph) — https://gondola.cc/yalesph

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Professor Tekisha Everette’s core passion is looking at ways in which U.S. policies are racialized and addressing their disproportionate impacts on the lives of minoritized individuals.
 
Her path towards this passion began long before her professorship at the Yale School of Public Health, her six years leading the nonprofit Health Equity Solutions, and even her time in Washington, D.C. lobbying for state and federal health care policy at the intersections of race, class, and gender. It began in her childhood home, a space provided by her parents that fed her literally and intellectually.

“My biggest heroes, if I could meet anyone living or dead, would be Sandra Day O’Connor, Thurgood Marshall, Barbara Jordan – and my mom,” said Everette, Ph.D. “Those are the people who drove me into social justice and taught me to see the world through that lens.”
 
As a member on Connecticut’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group, Everette emphasizes measuring the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and brown communities in order to strategize access to vaccine distribution for the most marginalized groups. In recognition of Everette’s and Health Equity Solutions’ advocacy and leadership, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is partnering with the organization on an outreach program to ensure as many people as possible are provided accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines, particularly communities that have been disproportionately impacted in access to health care. 
 
Everette also educates and inspires in the classroom in her new course, “Advocacy and Activism,” as part of our U.S. Health and Justice Concentration. In the class, she calls on the next generation to understand the story of activism’s past and to think critically and creatively to envision activism for the future. She advises her students to not be afraid to fail, and to instead focus on the joys of learning, contributing, and critically challenging norms even within themselves. Read more about Everette’s advocacy in and outside of the classroom through our link in bio. 
 
Image description: Tekisha Everette head shot

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