Podcasts about netia mccray

So many people are suffering silently due to long COVID. But, they've also come together to support each other in their fight for access to quality care. Reset talks with Dr. David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, Dr. Pete Thomas, internal medicine and preventive community medicine specialist at Howard Brown Health in Chicago, Kathie Kane-Willis, director of policy and advocacy at Chicago Urban League, and Samantha Lane, LCSW for Humboldt Park Counseling and host of the Long COVID Support & Processing Group. We also dive deeper with Netia McCray, director of education for the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, Fiona Lowenstein, founder of the Body Politic COVID-19 Support Group and editor of The Long COVID Survival Guide and Chimére L. Smith, long COVID patient consultant in Baltimore.

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Host Juanique Randall chats to Social Entrepreneur and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate Netia McCray serves as the Founder and Executive Director of Mbadika, a social venture dedicated to fostering youth-driven innovation and entrepreneurship. Netia assisted with the development of carbon nanotubes for possible use in spacesuits or a space exploration. She turned away from a career in Silicon Valley to focus on Mbadika, a Boston-area nonprofit that helps kids get the technology skills they need to succeed in the modern economy. We discuss the reality that while "Talent is universal, opportunity is not" and what she is doing to change that. 

Netia McCray, founder of Mbadika discusses the origins of Mbadika, her hero Queen Nzinga and Pokemon!

MIT grad, Netia McCray talks about our love for Riri Williams AKA IronHeart

We talk about comic books and Riri Williams (IronHeart)

MIT grad and Mbadika founder, Netia Mccray joins the STEAM Box podcast to talk science, comic books, anime, and non profit orgs.

Social media feeds are lighting up with hashtags such as #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe and #BlackPantherLive celebrating the release of a Hollywood adaptation of the groundbreaking comic series, Black Panther. Educators are also getting into the fandom, seizing on opportunities the film creates to teach students about empowerment, culture and even the importance of learning science and engineering. Netia McCray, is one of the educators using the Black Panther film as an educational opportunity. She is the founder of a non-profit called Mbadika, which means 'Ideas' in Kimbundu, a language spoken in the northern region of Angola. EdSurge talked with McCray about her new YouTube series where she's working with makers to teach students how to use design software and 3D printers to recreate artifacts from the Black Panther film. McCray also addressed the significance of showcasing this film during Black History Month, why the main actor chose to use an african accent and how a fictional film like this can have real implications on the empowerment of black women in STEM.