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I am the Founder & CEO of Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program and Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. šŸ˜ā™„ļø My Website, www.DiversityCRNA.org #diversitycrna
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Still I Rise… Before our immersive Diversity CRNA 2025 Info & Airway Workshop in Pittsburgh begin w/ marginalized ICU RNs across the country, Friday afternoons start with a Meet & Greet! A CRNA & Nurse Anesthesia Resident Panel then breaking the ice with the ā€˜cup game’ for networking purposes.

Thank you Dr. Carline Jean Pierre, DNP, CRNA, AGACNP who presented on DNP/DNAP Project Ideas through an Equity Lens In attendance, diverse critical care nurses across the country before applying to nurse anesthesia programs at the Diversity CRNA 2025 Event in Pittsburgh

Early Sunday morning walk through Valley Forge National Park listening to a chorus of birds chirping, priceless. #BlackWomen

Early Sunday morning walk through Valley Forge National Park listening to a chorus of birds chirping, priceless. #BlackWomen

A crna•ish story on commitment towards service and delivery of anesthesia in a graduate doctorate program Proud of Alan Garcia, of Mexican descent and currently enrolled as an Emory University Nurse Anesthesia Program with full ride scholarship from the Air Force.

Thank you to Dr. De’Kia Dortch, DNAP, CRNA on presenting on Barriers to Increasing Racial Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia at the Diversity CRNA 2025 Info Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshop in VCU! Dr. Dortch graduated from the #1 CRNA Program (VCU) with a 4.0 GPA & Diversity CRNA Board Member!

Keynote Speaker… Dr. Nelson Aquino, DNP, MS, CRNA, FAANA on Anesthetic Consideration for the Transgender & Non-Binary Patient Population. Diversity CRNA 2025 Information Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshop hosted at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science (August 22nd - 24th)

It’s not a burden to love Him and to represent Him Amen.

And, just like that, Brittania Buchanan, ICU Nurse attended a Diversity CRNA 2025 Event in Pittsburgh before applying to nurse anesthesia programs! Brittania's testimony: This past weekend at the Diversity CRNA Conference was the reminder and reset I didn’t know I needed.

National Impact We hosted 5 Diversity CRNA 2024 Info Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshops 1st day, comprehensive info shared about CRNA programs, DNP/DNAP projects & clinical expectation 2nd full immersive simulation day before nurses apply to nurse anesthesia programs across the country

Fashion as a political act. Brilliant. American fashion designer Willy Chavarria starts his show with a performance dedicated to those illegally detained by ICE at Paris Fashion Week.

Willy Chavarria Honors Immigrants Detained by ICE at Paris Fashion Week ā€œUse your art and your platforms to shine a light on the horrors that have befallen our community..ā€ ~John Leguizamo @johnleguizamo

These Black women inspire me to write… Alice Walker Nina Simone Toni Morrison Lena Horne Maya Angelou Black women…today sit down & write. I insist, just express yourself beautifully with intention, especially today. ā€œI was writing in a lonely place…and not for publicationā€ ~ Toni Morrison

Thank you CRNAs & Nurse Anesthesia Residents... Diversity CRNA 2025 Workshop in Pittsburgh "The function of freedom is to free someone else." ~ Toni Morrison CRNAs earned 14 AANA Continuing Education Class A Credits for serving as panelists and or preceptors at the event (June 20th - 22nd)

Thank you to Keynote Speaker for the Diversity CRNA 2025 Info Session & Airway Sim Lab Workshop Pittsburgh Bruno Beja-Umukoro, MSN, CRNA/APN, podium presenter on ā€œInternational Surgical & Anesthesia Mission Trip in Ghana,ā€ highlights his global impact and commitment to equitable surgical care.

Diversity CRNA...the blueprint of excellence. Diversity CRNA 2025 in Pittsburgh Onward to 3 more Diversity CRNA 2025 Info & Airway Sim Lab Workshops! Access in safe spaces & early professional socialization of marginalized RNs by the Immersion Model for Diversifying Nurse Anesthesia Programs

Diversity CRNA...a national model blueprint of excellence! Diversity CRNA 2025 Info & Airway Sim Lab in Pittsburgh begins with a DNP/DNAP Project Ideas through an equity lens presentation Dr. Richmond Romero, DNP, CRNA and Dr. Dominique Pearson, DNP, CRNA (Michigan State University CRNA Program)

In Pasadena, CA… Diversity CRNA 2025 Information Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshop hosted at Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia. Safe spaces for future marginalized CRNAs.

"The function of freedom is to free someone else." ~ Toni Morrison In this video, ICU RNs interested in applying to CRNA programs across the country attended a Diversity CRNA 2024 Info & Airway Simulation Lab Event at Fairfield University In 2025, we answer the call for 5 Diversity CRNA Events!

"The function of freedom is to free someone else." ~ Toni Morrison In this video, ICU RNs interested in applying to CRNA programs across the country attended a Diversity CRNA 2024 Info & Airway Simulation Lab Event at Fairfield University In 2025, we answer the call for 5 Diversity CRNA Events!

Early Wednesday morning walk in the park listening to a chorus of birds chirping, beautiful. #BlackWomen

Joseph Buenviaje Nurse Anesthesia Student Johns Hopkins University Greetings from London! I wore my shirt while visiting one of the wonders of the world! My diversity shirt has been traveling the world with me, for culture and knowing true meaning of diversity. ā¤ļø

Congratulations Zohran Mamdani ( @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ) šŸŽ‰šŸ„³šŸŽŠšŸ™ŒšŸ¾.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Democratic Primary for Mayor, defeating completely awful candidate Andrew Cuomo. Well done, New York. Well done.

Simmie Jones, ICU RN attended the Diversity CRNA 2025 Info & Airway Sim Lab before applying to CRNA Programs! I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to @lenagould and @diversitycrna for the incredible opportunity to be in a room filled with CRNAs and esteemed nurse anesthesia faculty.

ā€˜The Barbershop’ (1946) Jacob Lawrence, Social realist & Artist through the Harlem Renaissance & Civil Rights Era "I do not look upon the story of the Blacks in America as a separate experience to the American culture but as a part of the American heritage and experience as a whole"

And, just like that, rest. #BlackWomen

Diversity CRNA...the blueprint of excellence. Diversity CRNA 2025 in Pittsburgh Onward to 3 more Diversity CRNA 2025 Info & Airway Sim Lab Workshops! Access in safe spaces & early professional socialization of marginalized RNs by the Immersion Model for Diversifying Nurse Anesthesia Programs

Diversity CRNA...a national model blueprint of excellence! Diversity CRNA 2025 Info & Airway Sim Lab Pittsburgh This weekend long immersive workshop was Edge Runner remarkable! Before everyone departed, we took a fabulous group photo of CRNAs, Nurse Anesthesia Residents & Future CRNAs! Bravo!!

And, just like that, as the founder, I finished the 68th Diversity CRNA Event! An award winning evidenced based model, the Diversity CRNA 2025 Information Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshop Event in Pittsburgh was a huge success!! Thank you to all of the CRNAs!

This weekend... We are hosting the Diversity CRNA 2025 in Pitt at the Wallace Event Center at Hosanna House June 20th - 22nd Thank you CRNAs who created airway simulation videos! Dr. Cordero Abdullah, DNP, CRNA on visual instruction of how nurse anesthesia residents log in their cases in programs.