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Published
Jan 13, 2023
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine recognized 5 individuals Friday who embody Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s values of service, equality, and selflessness done their volunteerism.
The institution's 41st MLK Jr. Commemoration celebrating King's beingness and bequest included the presumption of the MLK Jr. Community Service Awards by Sherita Golden, vice president and main diverseness serviceman for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Katrina Caldwell, vice provost for diverseness and inclusion and main diverseness serviceman for Johns Hopkins University.
"Days similar this punctual america that we each person the capableness to lend to what's bully successful the world," Caldwell said successful her remarks astatine the event, held successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip since January 2020.
The recipients are:
- Nicole Dawson-Matthews, aesculapian assistant, Johns Hopkins Medicine Cardiology astatine Sibley
- Latoya Frazier, compliance coordinator, Intrastaff, Johns Hopkins Health System
- Elena MacFarlane, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Alicia Wilson, vice president for economical development, Johns Hopkins University and Health System
- Lisa Young, aesculapian student, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"In 1 of his last sermons, Martin Luther King Jr. asked to beryllium remembered not for the plaudits helium received but simply for having 'tried to emotion and service humanity,'" JHU President Ron Daniels said. "Today's honorees genuinely embody that spirit. Whether they are providing necessities and comfortableness to refugees, launching nonprofits for at-risk youth, administering COVID-19 vaccines, discovering caller ways to enactment students with disabilities and chronic illness, oregon helping to motorboat the East Baltimore Food Access Initiative, each of these recipients has demonstrated an unthinkable capableness to emotion and service humanity present astatine Hopkins and successful each the communities of which they are a part. We are grateful for their contributions—and those of truthful galore crossed our instauration who transportation connected the bequest of Dr. King we commemorate today."
Additionally, Inez Stewart, elder vice president for quality resources astatine Johns Hopkins Medicine, was recognized with the Levi Watkins Jr. Ideals Award. Watkins, who died successful 2015, was the archetypal Black main nonmigratory of cardiac country astatine the Johns Hopkins Hospital and successful 1980 made aesculapian past by implanting the archetypal automatic bosom defibrillator successful a patient. He launched the MLK commemoration lawsuit successful 1982 to grant the antheral who was his pastor and mentor portion helium grew up successful segregated Montgomery, Alabama.
Stewart closed her remarks by sharing a punctuation from King: "Not everyone tin beryllium celebrated but everyone tin beryllium large due to the fact that greatness is determined by service. You lone request a bosom afloat of grace and a psyche generated by love."
From a Hopkins Medicine illustration of Stewart and her work:
Inez Stewart ... is perpetually connected the lookout for hidden talent.
"Every enactment has it," she says. "My question is always, 'How bash we enactment successful spot systems that exposure endowment that's already present astatine Hopkins?' That's my focus."
Stewart worked intimately with Sherita Golden, main diverseness officer, to found the Levi Watkins Jr. Mentorship Program, which Stewart says "supports next-generation vocation development, creates accidental for greater vulnerability of hidden endowment and helps those radical research vocation aspirations."
Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept crossed the U.S. successful 2020, wellness attraction organizations person struggled to support positions filled. Stewart has led Johns Hopkins Medicine's efforts to connection programs that place high-potential entry-level employees to instrumentality connected hard-to-fill, higher-level roles. To guarantee their success, the employees person paid training.
"Inez's strategy helps marque definite we volition proceed to beryllium disposable to service the patients and families of our communities," says Carolyn Carpenter, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System's National Capital Region successful her information of Stewart for the Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. Ideals Award. "But it besides provides advanced-level jobs and acquisition programs for our staff, galore of whom unrecorded successful the neighborhoods our hospitals serve."
MLK Jr. Community Service Award winners
Nicole Dawson-Matthews
During the tallness of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Silver Spring, Maryland, autochthonal could beryllium recovered administering the vaccine astatine galore clinics passim Maryland and Washington, D.C. Some of this clip was during the workday, but astir of it was successful the evenings and connected weekends.
"Considering each that the satellite had seen up to that constituent — the hospitalizations and deaths associated with COVID were unbelievable," she says. "Being capable to assistance retired successful immoderate mode I could wasn't adjacent a question."
Among her Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) squad members, she is known for going supra and beyond successful enactment of diligent care. It's what her colleagues respect astir astir her. "She ne'er hesitated to measurement successful and was anxious to administer the vaccine astatine the COVID clinics," wrote Marina Paul, signifier administrator, successful her information of Dawson-Matthews for the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service.
Latoya Frazier
Five years ago, Latoya Frazier started a nonprofit organization, Wilcome Human Services, that provides transitional housing, mentoring, workforce development, enactment services and resources for at-risk younker and young adults successful York, Pennsylvania, and successful Baltimore.
Wilcome (a sanction created from her content that God's will, volition come) operates 2 transitional homes successful Baltimore and partners with Baltimore City Public Schools, the departments of societal services for Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and the Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Youth Homelessness.
"It's not thing I acceptable retired to do, but I kept having these dreams [about establishing a nonprofit organization]," she says. "It gives maine a accidental to springiness thing back."
Elena MacFarlane
Elena MacFarlane began assisting exile families recently arrived from Afghanistan successful January 2022. Armed with a Google translator, a trunk-load of donations and a web of friends anxious to connection support, the Johns Hopkins researcher shared beverage with a mates and their 3 children and plunged into a unpaid relation she finds profoundly rewarding.
The adjunct prof of familial medicine has go a acquainted look astatine the Immigrant and Refugee Outreach Center (IROC), a nonprofit enactment that provides resources, acquisition and outreach to individuals and families successful Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. So far, she has helped astatine slightest 12 families that resettled successful the portion aft evacuating from Afghanistan successful 2021, and she has collected and delivered items to astir 60 much connected her mode to and from her location successful Washington's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Alicia Wilson
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, Alicia Wilson was connected the crushed successful Baltimore tending to important assemblage needs. She helped found the East Baltimore Food Initiative, which fed much than 7,000 residents and 2,000 families per week; she worked with the metropolis wellness section to make a harmless nutrient transportation strategy for Spanish-speaking residents who needed to quarantine astatine home; she dispersed the connection astir rooms disposable for quarantining and she provided COVID-19 accusation to assemblage youth.
Such assemblage work is cardinal to everything Wilson has done, whether arsenic vice president for economical improvement and assemblage partnerships astatine The Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System, oregon successful her idiosyncratic life.
Wilson has headed Johns Hopkins' efforts to grow its relation arsenic an anchor instauration and economical motor successful Baltimore successful ways that payment some Johns Hopkins and neighboring communities.
Lisa Young
Lisa Young serves the Johns Hopkins assemblage by promoting acquisition accessibility, and by providing opportunities for young radical with disabilities to enactment successful adaptive sports.
While the second-year aesculapian pupil is engaged with her studies, she makes clip to assistance pb Equal Access successful Science and Medicine, a Johns Hopkins committee which serves postgraduate students with disabilities. With a team, she helped unafraid assistance backing for and coordinate a semiannual lecture bid featuring scientists and clinicians with disabilities, chronic illnesses and intelligence wellness conditions.
Young's extremity is to empower and unite students to tackle analyzable issues regarding disability, disclosure and organization barriers to access. Her efforts see collaborations with the Kennedy Krieger Institute, the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center and Student Disability Services astatine The Johns Hopkins University.
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