Organizing for Immigrant Justice: Conversation with Doctors 4 Camp Closure
Join CPRC and CHC4BL for a conversation with D4CC founders on the ways in which healthcare professionals can (and do!) organize for immigration justice. We will discuss the varieties of organizing strategies the group uses, their organizing leadership, their partnerships with other community organizers and groups, and more.
Dr. Arzuaga
Dr. Arzuaga is a neonatologist and Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the three co-founders of Doctors 4 Camp Closure and recently served as a Massachusetts delegate for the American Academy of Pediatrics Legislative Conference in Washington DC.
Her academic interests include ethics in neonatology as well as physician activism in relation to issues that affect public health.
Dr. Deines
Danielle Deines is a co-founder of Doctors 4 Camp Closure and a neonatologist living and practicing in Peoria, Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in her role as a neonatologist with the Children's Hospital of Illinois and University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.
She balances her clinical medicine and bedside teaching with time spent in advocacy and activism, as well as being outdoors with her family of 5. She and her husband have included their 3 children in various D4CC events.