Learning Impact: This book illuminates how slavery is the foundation of the majority of current systems within the United States.

Learning Impact: History of the Attica uprising outside of Buffalo in 1971. This was one additional transformative moment in my adult life when I (again) realized how little I know about the impacts of racism all around me.

Learning Impact: Memoir centered on the tragic deaths of five Black young men in the author’s life, between 2000 and 2004.

Learning Impact: Made me understand what we are doing wrong.

Learning Impact: Helps me understand the experiences of the author.

Learning Impact: It is informative about the racial biases ingrained in beauty standards.

Learning Impact: How much of medicine and medical knowledge was/is founded on racism. 

Learning Impact: Exposes our biases like no other book!

Learning Impact: An easy guide on how to have uncomfortable conversations.

Learning Impact: Understanding the need for reproductive justice for Black Women

Learning Impact: Goes beyond duty of physicians to demonstrate the need for comprehensive reproductive care.

Learning Impact: A fantastic and frustrating book about constant misdiagnosis and misrepresentation in women’s health since the beginning of its time. This book really opened my eyes to how systemic the problems within women’s health are!

Learning Impact: I had this book as required reading for my undergraduate course on medical anthropology and it tells the story of the first Navajo woman surgeon. I recommend it to everyone, but especially women going into health care as it demonstrates Dr. Alvord’s struggles of entering a male-dominated field. It teaches about combining western medicine with the traditional healing methods of Native American culture.

Learning Impact: Women's bodies have been used as war weapons throughout war histories, but in many cases, we have normalized it and many perpetrators are never brought to justice. The victims are blamed for the crimes done to them and society expects them to move on. As Buffalo has resettled many refugees in past years, it is important to learn which open wounds many are carrying.

Learning Impact: An incredible book and resource that documents the erasure and exclusion of women from data collection, product and service design, so much more.

Learning Impact: Teach us about the importance of giving space to intersectionality and amplify the voices of indigenous woman that, in my opinion, have a lot of wisdom to share with the world.

Learning Impact: It made me believe that we can actually change the world as we know it.

Learning Impact: Is incredibly insightful, learning about this powerful leader is just impressive.

Learning  Impact: Emily’s approach to explaining gender as it relates to anatomy has helped me give language to what I know to be true about bodies, gender identity and sexuality.

Learning Impact: Don’t be afraid to fail. That is my learning impact.

Learning Impact: This is for kids and young teens, and what it wants to achieve is to inspire young women to be fearless and brave.