Archana Mishra, MD

We asked members of the Jacobs School community: “What does Juneteenth mean to you?”

Archana Mishra, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine, shares:

"Juneteenth to me is a reminder to meaningfully respect the dignity of fellow human beings so that everyone is truly seen and heard. It is a reminder to evoke the principles of liberty and justice for all that are needed to build a just and equitable society. It is a reminder of the painfully slow progress towards racial equity, in particular for Black Americans, since June 19, 1865, and the urgency to warp speed the efforts at both individual and systemic levels.”