Emerging from a year of transition, we reaffirm and recommit to health equity as our North Star. As an organization, we will build on this year’s transformational racial identity work with Dr. Victoria Ngo, UC Davis Research Fellow, and Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia, Director of Social Justice and Immersive Learning at UC Davis’ Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Now, with a shared understanding of the historical, structural, systemic, and systematic dimensions of racism, Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia’s provocative question will propel us and center our work in 2023:  "How is it that we can't find a racist in the room and yet we continue to produce racialized outcomes? We are responsible for both the intent and the outcome.”

Closing 2022, proud of the shared accomplishments described here, we approach the new year with fierce hope and determination. HIP will craft intentionally designed spaces for collaboration to close racialized gaps in health status and outcomes. In these spaces, we will affirm community strengths and acknowledge community trauma and history. We will invite truthful sharing of personal stories so that we can design systems that truly heal and resolve glaring gaps in health in order to co-create a thriving, loving, connected community. To HIP, this is how we see our current path to strengthen and embed health equity. 

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We know we can achieve this. We invite you to join us.

In love and partnership,