Yvette Perry

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Health Equity Programs Lead,
Co-Founding Team

Yvette Perry, PhD is a lover of music and books, an amateur photographer, and a collector of antique typewriters. A graduate of Lesley College, Purdue University, and University of Minnesota, Yvette was a member of Haraka Writers at the Black Cultural Center during her time as a Boilermaker.

She has a background as an administrator in medical school student affairs and admissions and currently is a medical school admissions consultant working with the Association of American Medical Colleges. She lives in Toledo, Ohio with her husband and mother-in-law and is the mother of adult twin daughters.

Yvette's Poems

Black Girls Sing of Freedom

"I'd tell her it's OK to be loud...it's OK to challenge and to bring all of you into these spaces where no one looks like you..."

Libation

"It changed me; It changed the way I look at life," said this woman about her profound experience during her pregnancy.

Forward

"I've been processing how to make the most of the small amount of life we have to live," said this physician.

Recursion

"I've been processing how to make the most of the small amount of life we have to live," said this physician.

To My Daughters, Who Will Need to Know

This physician had recently started a new job when the pandemic hit.

Yosef the Builder

This physician discussed being the only one in his practice network with expertise in patients with a specific type of chronic pain.

Re-set

"I grew from the experience – though I think it aged me 10 years!" This is how a resident described a turning point with a specific patient when he recognized how burned out he was.

Forbearance

He had recently lost his father to COVID-19 and was reflecting on forgiveness. For the majority of his life with his father, they did not have a positive relationship. However, in the last three years of life, his father lost his memory and his personality changed into someone who was loving and kind.

Yvette's Poetry Collection