March 1, 2024

In this Department of Family and Community Medicine Grand Rounds presentation, we are putting community voices front and center. Residents of the Tenderloin (San Francisco’s most diverse neighborhood) and Dr. Monica Hahn (FCM) will be in dialogue with each other and with you, discussing strategies for creating effective, supportive collaborations for institutional and structural change at UCSF. We began this work in 2021, amid the chaos of COVID and discovered in the process what it looks like to mutually honor the experiences of those struggling to access care and those juggling inequitable resources and burnout as they provided care. We will tell you the history of this project, how it supports our work as community and healthcare advocates, and how you can find your place in similar communities of change agents.

Shavonne Allen, Skywatchers Ensemble, San Francisco Artist and Resident, is a community leader whose creative talents bring light to the needs of the community and uplifts the talents of all.

Sam Dennison, Faithful Fools, Tenderloin Resident, is a community advocate who challenges UCSF to deepen community partnerships with unlikely allies for deep institutional change.

Freddy Martin, Congregational Life & Community Engagement Manager Glide Memorial Church, Skywatcher, whose depth of commitment brings people together and knits community threads into vibrant patterns.

Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MA, AAHIVS, Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family & Community Medicine and OBGYN, is a valued community collaborator and liaison between UCSF and community residents who opens UCSF doors to otherwise unheard community voices.