Claire Valderama-Wallace’s (she/her/siya) journey has taken her from physiology (UCLA) to public health (George Washington University) to nursing (UCSF and UC Davis) in classrooms, clinical settings, public health organizations, harm reduction-centered organizations, and organizing spaces. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing at California State University, East Bay, where she teaches Community Health Nursing, Community Engagement, and Epidemiology and Social Inequities. She is the MSN Program Coordinator, co-chairs the department’s Dismantling Racism in Nursing Education task force, and convenes the university’s Indigenous Acknowledgement Collective. She is also a member of GABRIELA Oakland, a grassroots Filipino women’s organization. She is forever grateful to her ancestors, family, kasamas, as well as past, present, and future students. A vision for anti-imperialist and anti-racist nursing education, research, policy, and practice guides her pedagogy, service, and scholarship.
Nursing Futurities 