Webinar 3/7 1-3 pm Eastern: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People with Chronic Illnesses in the U.S.
Lifesaving, practical tools and mutual aid for people with chronic illnesses in the US, incorporating disability justice and emergent strategies
We know you feel isolated and unsure. So do we. So join us. The registration link will give you options to join our network even if you can’t be on or don’t want to be on the webinar.
The webinar will include:
practical stories/examples of effective mutual aid and care networks;
specific measures to implement regarding this fast-moving situation;
perspectives and strategies from a family practice/urgent care doctor and healer;
an opening grounding and a breakout room offering somatic and grounding practices.
It will NOT include individual medical advice.
Transcripts and recording of the webinar, plus associated links, will be distributed broadly.
Register here: https://forms.gle/XBidtSxsJz8otQ4u8
SPEAKERS/ FACILITATORS:
JD Davids, strategist and storyteller, Cranky Queer
Crissaris Sarnelli, MD, primary care/family doctor and healer, Harlem NY
Elandria Williams, Executive Director and Trainer, PeoplesHub
The webinar is sponsored by The Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness, with co-sponsors AIDS United, Counter Narrative Project , ME Action, and Positive Women's Network - USA (list in formation)
Register here: https://forms.gle/XBidtSxsJz8otQ4u8
Speakers/ Facilitator Bios:
Crissaris Sarnelli, MD, primary care/family doctor and healer
Dr. Sarnelli, a New York born Dominican family doctor and healer, is currently practicing primary care in Harlem. She centers the awareness of mind-body-spirit one-ness, as she engages a variety of healing modalities that include western medicine to support the management of dis-ease. Dr. Sarnelli also hosts Harlem Heals, an event that engages communities in healing and empowering activities and transforms waiting rooms to spaces of healing. She also facilitates workshops and healing circles around the topics of self and community care/wellness at aligned organizations and community events. She has also led first responder/stop the bleed community workshops. She engages in supporting people's healing through listening, and explores ways to re-connect folks to their own power and abilities to heal and knows that community empowerment and connection are integral to healing.
Dr. Sarnelli trained at New York Presbyterian Hospital for residency in urban family medicine and received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and her undergraduate degree from Yale University. She has worked primarily in urban under-resourced communities, with experiences practicing in homeless shelters, urgent care settings and primary care clinics.
Elandria Williams, Executive Director and Trainer, PeoplesHub
Elandria Williams is the Executive Director at PeoplesHub. She also provides development support to cooperatives, mostly in the Southern United States, and is a co-editor of Beautiful Solutions, a project that is gathering some of the most promising and contagious stories, solutions, strategies and big questions for building a more just, democratic, and resilient world. Beautiful Solutions has a web platform, trainings and a book soon to be released.
For the last eleven years Elandria worked at the Highlander Research and Education Center, first as the youth/intergenerational programs director and then helping co-coordinate Economics and Governance programs such as the Mapping Our Futures Curriculum and the Southern Grassroots Economies Project. She served on the board of the Southern Reparations Loan Fund (SRLF), and currently serves on the boards of the US Solidarity Economy Network, Appalachian Studies Association and the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, and is one of the Co-Moderators of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
JD Davids, strategist and storyteller, Cranky Queer
JD is a chronically-ill and disabled transmasculine writer and advocate with more than 25 years of experience in health activism, social movements, policy and journalism who is living with ME/CFS (previously called chronic fatigue syndrome) and a handful of other troublesome diagnoses. He is committed to sharing information and unique approaches to living well with illness, driven by his passion for better, real-world information about health, sexuality and community and drawing on his training as an HIV treatment activist, research advocate, and in crafting queer and trans lives that don't fit any scripted roles.
As a member of ACT UP Philadelphia and co-founder of Health GAP, Davids was a core organizer in the movement that slashed the cost of HIV treatment and opened up treatment access for millions worldwide, and later founded CHAMP, a national advocacy network devoted to HIV/AIDS and social, racial and economic justice. He’s been an expert advisor to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) and other acronyms. After a stretch as managing director and director of strategic communications for The Body, he now runs JD Strategies in Brooklyn NY, supercharging movement, communications and organizational strategies for health and research policy, gender advocacy, national networks and hell-raising activist groups. He’s also writing The Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness and collaborating on Queer Conversations, a startup media company. @TheCrankyQueer.