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DaJanae Gresham-Ryder

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DaJanae Gresham-Ryder is from Stockton, California, and attended Cesar Chavez High School. As a high school student, DaJanae enrolled in the healthcare careers track and served as a volunteer tutor for students with special needs. She first became interested in nursing after witnessing her grandmother serving as a caregiver for her great-grandmother. Before obtaining a B.S.N from California State University, East Bay, in 2019, DaJanae served one year in the US military.

 DaJanae currently serves as a Clinical Nurse II for UC Davis Medical Center , Trauma One hospital in Northern California. She recently returned to her California State alma mater to pursue graduate education in Nursing Leadership and Administration, where she currently serves as a class representative.  As an active member of Capitol City Black Nurses Association, a local chapter of the National Black Nurses Association, DaJanae hopes to strengthen her leadership skills while advocating to improve the diversity and equity of healthcare workers. As an emerging nurse leader, her goal is to decrease workplace oppression for healthcare workers of color. 

Claire Valderama-wallace

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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.

Amelie Perron

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Amélie Perron, RN, PhD is a Full Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Co-President of the Nursing Observatory. Her clinical practice is grounded in community psychiatry and crisis intervention. She has worked on many research projects in psychiatric nursing and forensic psychiatry in Canada, France and Australia, as well projects on nurse whistleblowing. Her work is grounded in Critical Theory and Feminist perspectives. Her research interests include nursing care to captive and marginalised populations; power relationships between health care professionals, patients and care settings; issues of discourse, risk, gender and ethics; and nursing epistemology. Through her work with the Nursing Observatory, she is more specifically interested in the sociopolitical aspects of care, nurses’ political action and nurse whistleblowing. She is co-author of “On the politics of ignorance in nursing and health care: Knowing ignorance” (2015, Routledge) and she co-edited “Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Assistance, Repression and Transformation” (2014, Ashgate) and “(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach” (2012, Ashgate). She has published 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and has presented at numerous international and national peer-reviewed conferences in a range of disciplines. She is also Editor of Aporia – The Nursing Journal. 

Twitter: @ame_perron

Nursing a Radical Imagination

Posted on by Jess Dillard-Wright

Y’all. We are so excited to share that we are working on a forthcoming anthology. The working title is Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from History and Theory to Action and Alternate Futures. Keep you eye on this spot for news on this project as it evolves.

With Nursing a Radical Imagination, we will share works that reflect on the realities created by the COVIDICENE for nursing and healthcare, recognizing that these realities are not new but rather the result of ongoing hegemonies. The crucible of the COVID19 pandemic amplifies preexisting injustice, exploiting the faults and fissures constructed through hundreds of years of capitalist extraction. The need for critical perspectives and building a more just, equitable future for nursing, healthcare, communities, the world is at a fever pitch. In Nursing a Radical Imagination, we consider the role our disciplinary history plays in constructing the present while critically examining the current state of affairs in nursing and healthcare. We propose a radical imagination for nursing and layout possibilities for futures not yet considered, embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.

We are so excited to share this news and brag on our inimitable and amazing collaborators. Check out what they are up to in the gallery below!

Nursing a Radical Imagination

Posted on by Jess Dillard-Wright

Y’all. We are so excited to share that we are working on a forthcoming anthology. The working title is Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from History and Theory to Action and Alternate Futures. Keep you eye on this spot for news on this project as it evolves.

With Nursing a Radical Imagination, we will share works that reflect on the realities created by the COVIDICENE for nursing and healthcare, recognizing that these realities are not new but rather the result of ongoing hegemonies. The crucible of the COVID19 pandemic amplifies preexisting injustice, exploiting the faults and fissures constructed through hundreds of years of capitalist extraction. The need for critical perspectives and building a more just, equitable future for nursing, healthcare, communities, the world is at a fever pitch. In Nursing a Radical Imagination, we consider the role our disciplinary history plays in constructing the present while critically examining the current state of affairs in nursing and healthcare. We propose a radical imagination for nursing and layout possibilities for futures not yet considered, embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.

We are so excited to share this news and brag on our inimitable and amazing collaborators. Check out what they are up to in the gallery below!