Community Medicine Tour

Drawing Blood:  Money, Medicine and Violence in Black America

The Community Medicine Tour will connect local community stakeholders with University administrators and alumni through speaking events featuring high-energy lecture presentations highlighting the need for effective preventive medicine and community violence strategies and A-List “Watch Party” fundraising events with foundations invested in health equity and/or violence prevention work at the local level.

Jomoworks will provide participating K-12 school districts with customized print and digital resources for teachers, parents and families and connect K-12 leadership with research fellows in Health Equity, Public Health, and Education through evidenced-based programs.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Dr. Zoe Stallings, Duke University Hospital

Zoe Stallings, M.D. is a family medicine doctor in Greensboro, North Carolina and is affiliated with Duke University Hospital. She received her medical degree from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and has been in practice for over 10 years, specializing in Family Medicine. Dr. Stallings started working in the community during college as a youth educator for the Neighborhood Schools Program through the University of Chicago and served as program coordinator for the Blue Gargoyle Youth Tutoring Program. Both organizations served at-risk youth with mentoring services. Her passion for the young people of her community lead her to work as an Instructor in the Afterschool Matters Program Words37 in the violence torn Roseland and Little Village Neighborhoods of Chicago.  The young people in her apprenticeship program were given exposure to journalism and media.  After realizing she could help the community in the field of medicine she went on to Loyola Stritch where she worked to coordinate a Violence Prevention Program that engaged the Department of Preventative Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine to create initiatives to address the violence in Chicago’s Maywood and Austin communities.

K. Bain, Community Capacity Development, New York, NY

K. Bain, founding Program Director for the 696 Build Queensbridge Cure Violence Initiative leads an independent research, training and advocacy think tank that applies Human Justice to achieve public safety, racial equity, community investment, human development and well-being in society.

K. Bain is Senior Community Development Advisor with the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, an independent research, training and advocacy think tank that applies Human Justice to achieve public safety, racial equity, community investment, human development and well-being in society. Founded and developed by academic professionals with prior experience within the criminal punishment system, the organization is the first of its kind in the country.

K. Bain is currently the founding Program Director for the 696 Build Queensbridge Cure Violence Initiative at the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, Inc. He was previously the New York City Director of legislation and budget affairs for the 45th Council member district in Brooklyn since 2010. His role included duties such as participating in the balancing of New York City’s 70-billion-dollar annual budget, as well as direct oversight of a multi-million-dollar member item budget. K has also been instrumental in the drafting, development and enactment of numerous pieces of legislation, most recently the Community Safety Act.