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Speak Your Mind | Natalia Linos
October 5, 2020 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
About This Event
Equity, Rights, and The Vote
Date: 10/5/20
Time: 4PM EDT
Length: 60 Minutes
Event Type: Virtual
Description
For over 70 years, women fought for the right to vote until the 19th Amendment was passed in1920. Black women were subjected to state law until the passing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This “Right” has been hard fought. WHY would you give it up? If not on your own behalf, vote because of your children, vote because of a parent, a relative, a friend, a neighbor. Someone needs YOU to help through your vote. VOTE!!This week’s guest: Dr. Natalia Linos, the Executive Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard and serves on the Poor People’s Campaign COVID-19 Health Justice Advisory Committee. She joins us to discuss equity, rights, and the vote. Join us! As always, we’ve saved a seat for you!
Series Host
Dr. Risa Ryger
Founder, 93% Consulting
About Dr. Ryger
Dr. Risa Ryger is a Clinical Psychologist and Founder of 93% Consulting. As an Expert in Change™, she specializes in helping people ignite and manage change at all stages of their professional and personal lives. With her background in psychology, neuroscience, business, and mindfulness, Dr. Ryger helps empower people to address, cope, and conquer change. Dr. Ryger believes that change can be our super power when we know how to harness it for positive growth. People who work with her learn that understanding and clarity are crucial steps that must be combined with implementation and action to help them move forward in their lives.
Dr. Ryger earned her Doctorate from Columbia University and has held academic appointments at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Cornell University Medical School. She has consulted and given presentations to professional, legal, financial, fashion, education, and event planner industries among others. Dr. Ryger serves on the Advisory Council of Mindfulness Without Borders. She is the proud mother of two amazing daughters.
Dr. Ryger knows that, “Positive change can happen at any point in your life. Be Heard. Be Seen. Be Valued”™
Featured Guest Speaker
Natalia Linos
About Natalia
Dr. Linos is the Executive Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard and serves on the Poor People’s Campaign COVID-19 Health Justice Advisory Committee.
Driven by a deep desire to fight injustice and inequality, she began a career at the United Nations, working first in Lebanon and then in New York advising governments across the globe to move the needle on key global priorities from poverty alleviation to ending gender-based violence and safeguarding global health. Following her doctoral training in epidemiology at Harvard University, she led the United Nations Development Programme’s work at the intersection of health and climate change, bringing together youth advocates and urging governments to take more ambitious action on climate change to meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement.
During the Ebola epidemic, Natalia worked as Science Advisor to the New York City Health Commissioner and continued her work to advance equity at a more local scale. She helped shape strategy around several key initiatives, including ThriveNYC, the Mayor’s $800 million citywide mental health initiative to tackle issues like opioid overdoses, depression and suicide, and an effort to end gun violence with the NGO Cure Violence.
She also contributed to launching new community health profiles for each of the city’s 59 districts, showing how structural racism, poverty, environmental injustice, and residential segregation were shaping the health of neighborhoods. She collected data and information to help communities advocate for greater investment in their district.
Natalia is a three-time Harvard graduate and lives in Brookline Village with her husband, Paul, and their three young children.
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