Who Participated?
The Programme Co-Hosts
Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne (she/her) is a junior doctor, organiser and researcher focussed on environmental justice, abolition, anti-colonialism and reimagining health systems. She loves doing grassroots mutual aid work and trying to develop liberatory healing skills. Rhiannon is of Welsh and Armenian-Palestinian heritage and finds lots of joy in connecting through food and music.
Amiteshwar Singh (he/him) is an organiser and student doctor in the UK, with roots within Amritsar, Panjab. To implement his vision for health justice that is rooted within decolonial praxis, he centres his work around the intersections of ecological justice, racial justice and a just economic transition. Through re-imagining health, Amit finds great joy in committing himself to a community-led radical, joyful future.
Araceli Camargo is a neuroscientist and health justice advocate working at Centric Lab. Araceli is a descendant of the original Peoples of Turtle Island.
How we chose participants
Sectors who participated
To ensure the programme can facilitate co-learning, we chose participants that worked in a range of spaces. This included Researchers, Sexual Health Advisors, Educators, Doctors, Health Campaigners, Psychologists, Students. Their work collectively spans the intersections of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, Racial Justice, Neurodiversity Justice, Gender Justice, Queer Justice and many more.
Intention to take the knowledge forward: We chose participants who were embedded in different types of community, and had the desire and the seedlings to take the knowledge and relationships forward and spread the seeds we are attempting to sow.
A space for community and shared growth: We chose participants who we felt would benefit from space and time to go deeper into key topics of health justice, and perhaps had not had access to, felt safe in, or been exposed to communal political consciousness raising.
To identify the participants best fit for the programme, we asked 3 core questions:
What does healing mean to you?
What current health justice pathways are you working on? This could include for example activism work community organising clinical work research healing skills.
What learnings from the programme do you envisage applying to future collective liberation and health justice work?
How would you describe yourself?