The University of Washington Genetic Counseling Graduate Program (UW GCGP) fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion through various activities and initiatives every year.
2024
Diverse Perspectives on Genetic Counselor Identities Panel (January 2024) with Sarah Clowes Candadai, Elizabeth Chavez, Susheela Jayaraman, Mercy Laurino, Devin Shuman, Mahi Gandhi (co-facilitator), and Clara Moiseyeva (co-facilitator) for GCGP Class of 2024 and 2025, alums, leadership team, faculty, current genetic counseling students, prospective genetic counseling students, fieldwork supervisors, and community genetic counselors
Histories and Futures of Genetic Essentialism: On Bias, Its Origins, and Its Harms (January 2024) by Shoumita Dasgupta, Ph.D., Boston University, for GCGP Class of 2024 and 2025, faculty, and staff
2023
DEI Resources at the UW Department of Medicine & Office of Healthcare Equity (September 2023) by Sean Greenlee and Aric Ho for GCGP Class of 2024 and 2025, and leadership team
Gender Inclusive Language (September 2023) by Lex Powers for GCGP Class of 2025 and leadership team
The Supervisory Alliance: Creating a Culture of Equity and Belonging (September 2023) by Nikkola Carmichael, Boston University Genetic Counseling Program, and Julia Platt, Stanford Genetic Counseling Program, for GCGP fieldwork supervisors
Creation of Café con Leche student group (Summer 2023) by Juliet Torres and Ernesto Marquez Montes, with founding members Allison Pacheco, Laura Leal Martinez, and Alanis Quinones Vega.
Histories and Futures of Genetic Essentialism: On Bias, Its Origins, and Its Harms (July 2023) by Shoumita Dasgupta, Ph.D., Boston University, for GCGP faculty and staff
What is Genetic Counseling? (July 2023) by Penny Chow and Juliet Torres, with help from Peg Cheng, for UDOC high school students
What is Genetic Counseling? (June 2023) by Samah Akhter, Penny Chow, Cathy Duong, Sneha Gupta, Priyal Panchal, and Juliet Torres, with help from Peg Cheng, for Dare to Dream high school students
What is Genetic Counseling? (March 2023) by Jessica Abgaryan, Erika Beckman, Ariel Callman, Penny Chow, Amelia Gingras, Hodan Ibrahim, and Madison Maeshiro for Sound Careers in Healthcare high school students
Bystander Intervention in the Genetic Counseling Classroom & Workplace (February 2023) by Heidi Lersch, Right To Be, for GCGP Class of 2023 and 2024, Class of 2025 interview candidates, faculty, staff, fieldwork supervisors, and community genetic counselors
Storytelling Strategies for Dismantling Racism (January 2023) by Natasha Marin, NONWHITEWORKS, for GCGP Class of 2023 and 2024
2022
LGBTQ+ in Genetic Counseling (December 2022) by Brad Rolf for GCGP fieldwork supervisors
Models of Supervision in Genetic Counseling (December 2022) by Krista Redlinger-Grosse and Ian MacFarlane, University of Minnesota Genetic Counseling Program, for GCGP fieldwork supervisors
UW BIPOC Staff Development Program (13-course program started in October 2022) by UWHR DEI for Peg Cheng and Tyler Hearing, GCGP staff
Facilitated discussion of Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saine (September 2022) by Alyna Khan for GCGP Class of 2023 and 2024, and leadership team
Gender Inclusive Language (September 2022) by Lex Powers, Paige Haas, and Sammy Jony for GCGP Class of 2024 and leadership team
2021
Facilitated discussion of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts (September 2021) by Alyna Khan for GCGP Class of 2023 and leadership team
Undoing Institutional Racism (July 2021) by People’s Institute Northwest for members of GCGP leadership team, faculty, DARE Committee, and Admissions Committee
Understanding Systems of Oppression (January 2021) by Scott Winn for members of GCGP leadership team, faculty, advisory board, DARE Committee, Admissions Committee, and interviewers