Thank you, thank you, thank you!
WPSR Health Justice Gala: March 6, 2021
Thank you for your support of our inaugural virtual fundraising event.
Together we raised $156,144.30 to support the mission of WPSR!
2021 PAUL BEESON AWARD HONOREES
The Paul Beeson Award honors activists in the healthcare field who have made a substantial contribution to peace, justice, and health in Washington state.
Professor Edwin Lindo, JD and Estell Jamiela Williams, MD
Professor Edwin Lindo has embarked on the journey to ask and explore the hard questions of Race & Racism within the institutions of Medicine and Law.
Edwin brings the interdisciplinary study of Critical Race Theory, Lat Crit, and others to Medicine and Law so we can better learn how Racism detrimentally affects our health, our learning, our teaching, and justice.
As faculty in the Department of Family Medicine, Edwin has developed curriculum and teaches Critical Race Theory and Medicine; and provides student and faculty development around the issues of race and equity in medical education and patient care. Professor Lindo is also the Assistant Dean for Social and Health Justice within the Office of Healthcare Equity at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
His research and scholarship has focused on the history of racialized medicine, race & racism within medicine, social justice and social movements, and decolonized pedagogies for critical education. He is an internationally recognized speaker and thinker on these critical issues.
Estell (his partner and wife) and Edwin founded and curated Estelita’s Library, a Social Justice Community Library & Bookstore dedicated to the goal of bringing truth and justice to communities through decentralized knowledge and decolonized spaces. Their books cover topics of justice, liberation, identity, race & racism, economic and political theory, and anything else that guides us in understanding our world through a critical lens. Estelita’s Library is named after their 3 year old, Estella.
Edwin is also the co-founder of North Star Cycling, the largest BIPOC cycling club on the West Coast — their goal is to bring melanated people and justice to cycling
Estell Jamiela Williams, M.D. was born and raised in Oakland, California. The youngest of seven siblings, raised by a single father and the first in her family to attend college. After attending Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically black college and university (HBCU) for undergrad she was ultimately displaced by Hurricane Katrina and transferred to the University of San Francisco where she ultimately graduated college.
She went on to attend medical school and residency training in general surgery at the University of Washington. She is now an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the School of Medicine and an Acute Care Surgeon in the Department of Surgery, Section of Emergency General Surgery.
Within the School of Medicine, she is Executive Director for Doctor For A Day (DFAD), an outreach program introducing under-resourced K-12 students to health careers. Additionally, she serves as a physician-at-large member of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) Foundation Board, working to advance efforts around healthcare equity. Her passions include health justice, healthcare disparities, health outcomes, healthcare workforce diversity, ecosystem programming to increase the number of students traditionally underrepresented in medicine and healthcare careers.
In response to the 2020 black lives matter uprising, she organized a march of 10,000 healthcare workers from across Washington state to declare racism a public health emergency.
In her free time she enjoys spending time with her family including her husband, 3 year-old daughter and 15-year-old niece. She also is co-founder along with her husband of Estelita’s Social Justice Library, a community library and bookstore focused on uplifting voices of communities of color, named after her daughter Estella.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali
Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali serves as the VP of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation. He is also the founder of Revitalization Strategies, a business focused on moving our most vulnerable communities from “surviving to thriving.” Previous to these roles, he was Sr. VP of Hip Hop Caucus and worked for the EPA for 24 years. Mustafa serves as a board member for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Climate Hawks Vote.
EVENT HOST
Lauren DuPree
After graduating with an MFA from Howard, she began working at theaters such as The Kennedy Center and Ford's Theatre. Since moving to Seattle, she's worked multiple times at The 5th Avenue Theatre and Village Theatre.
Lauren believes the lessons we learn during life’s challenges equip us to be a help to others; that's the vision of her blog and the art she creates. Whether it's sharing her very personal health journey or comically shedding light on our unhealthy obsession with social media, art should make us feel a little more seen and a little less alone. Most importantly, art is a tool for positive change.
EVENT VOLUNTEERS
Special thanks to Bruce Amundson & Camilla Pusceddu, our exceptional Health Justice Gala Volunteers, and all our Peer to Peer Volunteer Fundraisers without whom this event would not have been any kind of success. Thank you!
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Donor listing as of March 22nd, 2021
$10, 000 and up
Dr David C & Anne Hall, Mark R Vossler MD, and Kenneth Lans MD MBA
$5, 000 and up
Bruce & JoAnn Amundson, Bill Donnelly, Annemarie Dooley MD MS, W Eberspacher, Bill Schnall MD, Louis Vontver, and Anonymous (x2)
$2, 000 and up
Dr Joseph K Berkson, Joachim Veith, Geraldine A Haynes, and Jean Walkinshaw
$1, 000 and up
Sonya Campion, Charles Cowan, Emer Dooley, Farrokh Farrokhi, Jon Hall, John Halsell, Evan Kanter, Luke Magnotto, and Jon Witte
$500 and up
Samuel Bernstein, Stephen Bezruchka MD MPH, Maeve Bowen, Joseph and Gail Bowlds, Julie Buck, Paul E Buehrens, Sara Cate & Russell Maier, Fionnuala Cormack, Chris Covert-Bowlds MD, Virginia Darvill, Roscius Doan, Stan Freidberg, Scot Gibson, Steven Galen Gilbert, Mark Gregor, Leah Ann Haseley, Jennie Gabrielle Hendrie, Rick Israel, Charles Janeway, William Jones, Vineeta Kumar, Dr Richard Lipsky, Danny Low, Robert Malte, Peter Manos, David McLanahan, Frederick Noland, Mark F Roller, Mike & Sigrid Salo, Bruce Smith, David Spurr, Stephen Tarnoff, Kathryn Treit, Virginia Warfield, In Memory of Dr Margaret Kitchell, and Anonymous (x4)
$250 and up
Gary Amundson, Betsy Bell, Margaret Bone, Markus Boos, Alison Bradywood, William Christopher Burns, Cheryl Clark, Rosemary Coleman, Amish J Dave, E Patchen Dellinger, Conor Dooley, Dennis Duffell, Sally Goodwin, C Linn Gould, Jeffery Graham, Mark Gunning, Amy Hagopian, Alex Hamling, Gwen Hanson, Priscilla Hoang, Gretchen Hund, Kristen K Knox, Rajneet Lamba, James Little, Charles Mayer, Ashlin Mountjoy, Mary Murphy, Cynthia Nofziger, Steven S Overman MD MPH, Paulo Palugod, Randall Paulsen, Anita Peñuelas MD MPH, Sandra Perlmutter, Donna Phares, Jim Robinson, Sachita Shah, Laura Skelton, Don Solberg, Michael Soman, Brien Stafford, Rebecca E Steinkamp, Hugh Straley, Nancy L Ward, Mary B Weiss, Lara Wilson, In Honor of Michael Peñuelas and Christopher Peñuelas , In Honor of Betsy Bell , and Anonymous
$100 and up
Diane Aboulafia, Craig Apperson, Charles Bailey, Holly Barker, Mary & James Bergman, Patricia Boiko, Sally Bowie, Gene Brandzel, David A Brook, Catharine Carine, Dean Carr, Jeffrey Cohen, Cindy Cole, Katie Constans, Joe Copeland, Carol Cordy MD, Joan Crooks, Sue & Cliff Curry, Minoo Damanpour, Nancy Danoff, Nancy Dickeman, Jennifer Donnolo, Polly Fabian, Virginia Felton, Tisha Frank, Howard Frumkin, Dr Mariaimee "Maria" Gonzalez, David Gould, William Grady, Elinor Gregor, Lindsay Harris, Irl B Hirsch MD, Setsuko Hosoda, Adam Hoverman DO MPH DTMH, Rejean L Idzerda, Jeff Johnson, Nancy Johnson, Aaron Katz, George Keeler MD, Sally Kentch, Mark Kleinman, Elizabeth Kruse, Thomas Richard Leary, Arlene Leichtling, Joan Lindell, Judith Lipton, Robert A Low, Donald Lewin Mellman, Paul Miller, Laura Muprhy, Cerece Rennie Murphy, Bud Nicola, Nan Noble MS PCC, Gil Omenn, Suzinne & Jonathn Pak-Gorstein, Pathmaja Paramsothy, Jesse Paulsen, Michael Pearson, James Timothy Pfeiffer, Moises Ramirez, John M Repp, Robert Richard, Annie Richardson, Doane Rising, Paul Roberts, Patricia Rothwell, Julia Margaret Ruark, Barbara Sardarov, Steve Sher, Susan Shulkin, Gregg Small, Teresa Sparling, Marcy Stafford, Marcia Stedman, Eric Swenson, Karen Totten, Bill Van Bibber, Frances Walker MS MBA, Chia Wang, Kathleen Washienko, Franz Wassermann, Anthony West, Kaycie Wood, In Memory of Dr Margaret Kitchell , In Honor of Dr Estell J Williams & Prof Edwin Lindo , and Anonymous (10x)
$50 and up
Tara A Barnes, Kelly Campbell, Jim & Lourdes deMaine, John Denooyer, David Drake, Mary R Ferguson, Alex Grande, Emily Grant, Noelle Hunt Bennett, Kim Kramer, Aya Kuribayashi, Ashley Lindell, Kelly Maddox, Michael Martin, Pamela L Martin, Fiona O'Leary Sloan, Savitha Pathi, Janell Patrick, Barbara Phinney, Bobby Righi, Fiona Robertson, Elizabeth Rodland, Susan & Joel Savishinsky, Suzanne E Scharlock, Ronald A Shure, John Stafford, Jane Stiehl, and Anonymous (x5)
