BIPOC Learner Gathering
This gathering aims to hold space for learners from UGME, PGME, DENT, ISoN, SPOT and SCSD, who identity as Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC).
Learners will have the opportunity to hear from faculty member Hiba Zafran (bio below) about her experience navigating her identity within the healthcare profession. Then, after a brief Q&A, Dr. Zafran will leave the meeting, and Myrlie Marcelin and Melissa-Anne Cobbler (bio’s below) will facilitate the remainder of the event, allowing learners to share experiences and speak to the challenges and strengths that come with being part of the BIPOC community in healthcare training.
Hiba Zafran, PhD, is a multiple migrant/third culture kid and queer poetess of Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian and mixed faith heritage. As an occupational therapist-psychotherapist her clinical expertise is with emerging adults experiencing immigration, racism, and/or gender questioning overlapping with psychosis and trauma. She experiences walking on the margins as both an identity and a way of being/knowing that she brings to her work as assistant professor in the Occupational Therapy Program, curriculum developer in the Indigenous Health Professions Program, and chair of the Subcommittee on Queer People of the Joint Board-Senate Committee on Equity.
Myrlie Marcelin, a recent graduate at McGill University in the Master of Social Work and Couple and Family Therapy, works as McGill's BIPOC Local Wellness Advisor at the Student Wellness Hub, and offers therapy to individuals, couples, and families. Working with a systemic and attachment-focused framework, she hopes her career will allow her to uplift BIPOC & LGBTQ+ communities by advocating for people whose voices have traditionally been ignored and overlooked.
Melissa-Anne Cobbler is a bona fide 80s baby who is made up of Montréal winters, Caribbean roots, and Audre Lorde quotes. A social worker who is a current graduate candidate in the Couple and Family Therapy program at McGill University, Melissa's work clinically and creatively connects to the pillars of intersectionality and narrative to support individuals in cultivating their own stories. Melissa identifies as a Black womxn womanist and is employed as an Access Advisor at McGill University.
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