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Favorite Sports Med memory?

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What is one accomplishment you are proud of for this year and one thing you want to work on this summer?

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“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

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“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

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“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”

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“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.”

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If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.

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"You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to reach your destination"

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"The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow."

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"Either you run the day or let the day run you"

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"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact"

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“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

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“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.”

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"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

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“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

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“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

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What is your favorite song right now?

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There are roughly 37 days left of school. How do you plan to grow and develop over the next month to be a better version of you?

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What are your plans for spring break?

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Born on January 3, 1793 on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, Lucrecia Mott along with her supportive husband, argued ardently for the abolitionist cause as members of the American Anti-Slavery Society in the 1830's. Mott was a founder of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 but not everyone supported women's public speaking so she faced a lot of backlash. This however did not stop Mott from speaking out on not only slavery but gender equality.

She eventually teamed up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and created the Seneca Falls Convention which was attended by hundreds of people including Frederick Douglass. Here she presented a Declaration of Sentiments which demanded not only rights for women but that the word "woman" be inserted into the Declaration of Independence and more importantly giving women the right to vote, which fueled the woman suffrage movement eventually.

She and her husband also allowed their Philadelphia-area home to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, allowing slaves a place to hide and rest as they sought freedom. In 1866, Mott joined with Stanton, Anthony, and Stone to establish the American Equal Rights Association. The following year, the organization became active in Kansas where black suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote, and it was then that Stanton and Anthony formed a political alliance with Train, leading to Mott's resignation. Kansas failed to pass both referendums.

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Jackie Kennedy is known as the wife of president John F. Kennedy. She was the youngest first lady in history (age 31) and was initially bashed for who she was. Educated, well dressed, and coming from a family of money.

However, this did not deter her. When she became first lady, the very things people hated her for were the things they now admired her for. She became a fashion icon as she stayed true to herself. She redesigned the white house and preserved many artifacts (she was an art major) and televised a tour of the white house redesign where over 50 million people tuned in, the first of it's kind.

Where she is most admirable is in sticking by her husbands side and supporting him as he fought to create equal rights for black people. He was ultimately assassinated in her lap on a car. What one may think would break Jackie actually strengthened her and she carried herself with great poise through the grief, raising her children and still showing up every day for her country.

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What woman has inspired you and why?

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Susan B. Anthony was a social activist and icon in the early women's rights movement. Raised by a family of Quakers, Anthony grew up handing out anti-slavery petitions as a child and teenager.

Though she was a lifelong supporter of gender and racial equality, Anthony and close friend Elizabeth Stanton diverged from the American Woman Suffrage Association when the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870. Controversially, they posited that no more men should be allowed to vote until women and men — of all races — could also vote.

In 1872, Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote. The trial would, years later, lead to her presentation to Congress introducing the 19th Amendment. Though it was not ratified until 1920, it was widely known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

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Born in Paris in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was an outspoken French philosopher and writer.

Perhaps her most influential work, "The Second Sex" was written in 1949 and helped begin a conversation around modern feminism. In the book, she articulated a thoughtful attack on the idea that women belonged in passive roles, and criticized the patriarchy. The book was prohibited by The Vatican but that didn't stop Beauvoir from continuing the fight for equality.

In 1970, Beauvoir helped launch the French Women's Liberation Movement by signing the Manifesto of the 343, which argued for abortion rights. She participated in demonstrations throughout the 1970s and continued to write and lecture on the situation of women.

Her then-controversial philosophies helped launch an ever-evolving conversation about what feminism is.

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Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico in 1907. To show her strong support for the Mexican Revolution, Frida later claimed her birth date to be three years later, so people would "associate her" with the revolution.

The artist used her work to portray taboo topics such as abortion, miscarriage, birth, and breastfeeding, among other things. In doing so, she opened up a conversation about these topics.

Kahlo once said "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality," giving an honest depiction of what life was like, especially for women.

Further, Kahlo was an openly bisexual woman and made no excuses or apologies for her sexual preferences.

In and out of the communist party, Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera were politically active. The couple raised money for the Republicans fighting against Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, and just days before her death Frida attended a protest against CIA intervention in Guatemala.

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In 1978, Sally Ride was selected to the first class of 35 astronauts – including six women – who would fly on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.

According to fellow astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, "Although Sally was one of six women in the 1978 class, she preferred to be considered one of 35 new astronauts – and to be judged by merit, not gender. It was important to all the women that the bar be as high as it was for the men."

She carried this belief throughout her entire career and life. She wrote five science books for children and initiated and directed education projects for students hoping to pursue science.

In 2001, she started Sally Ride Science which helps to combat misconceptions about women in STEM and "inspire young people in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and to promote STEM literacy."

Dr. Ride has received numerous honors and awards. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame and has received the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She has also twice been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal.

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Just 26 years old, Malala Yousafzai has already made huge leaps for female education and advocacy. Encouraged by her father, Malala wrote for BBC Urdu and detailed her experiences living under Taliban occupation when she was 11. Yousafzai and her family lived in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, where local Taliban groups prevented girls from going to school, often in violent ways.

At age 15, Yousafzai was targeted in an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman. Although Yousafzai was shot in the head, she survived the incident. Yousafzai and her story were met with global support and acclaim.

In the years following the shooting, Yousafzai has risen in prominence as a feminist and social activist. She founded a non-profit education organization called the Malala Fund and wrote the memoir "I am Malala."

In 2012, at the age of 17, Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history. Yousafzai is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree at Oxford University, and continues to speak out on female education and gender equality.

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Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and educator who was also an early civil rights leader. She was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Similarly to Sojourner Truth, Wells was born into slavery. Later freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, she lost the majority of her family to yellow fever when she was only 16 years old.

She spent most of her life working as a teacher and investigative reporter, documenting lynching and racial violence in the US during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She even travelled internationally, exposing others to what was going on in the US, even if she was often shunned or ignored.

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Yuri Kochiyama was born and raised in San Pedro, CA. After Pearl Harbor, her father was arrested by the FBI and her family was sent to a Japanese internment camp in Arkansas.

During this period of her life, Yuri saw parallels between the prejudice against Asian Americans and the tribulations of black Americans, and later participated in anti-war, black liberation, and Asian-American movements, teaming up with Malcolm X and Black Power organizations.

Kochiyama and her husband often invited Freedom Riders — young men and women fighting for civil rights in the South — over to their house for dinner. Living in New York City, Kochiyama and her husband opened their house up for activities to come and speak to anyone who could cram into their tiny apartment.

Kochiyama was a staunch defender of US political prisoners, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for her lifelong fight against racism.

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A social activist and journalist, Gloria Steinem was a prominent leader in the feminist movement during the 1960s and 1970s, and continues to play a vital role in the feminist fight today. A self-described radical feminist, Steinem helped launched "Ms." magazine in the 1970s — the first feminist focused publication at the time.

Steinem has not been without her controversies: She faced widespread criticism from the LGBTQ community in the late 1970s for her disapproval of famed tennis player Renee Richards' sex reassignment surgery. Steinem later clarified that her remarks came at a time when little was known about the transgender experience, and said in 2013 that transgender lives "should be celebrated, not questioned."

In recent years, she's become a vocal advocate of an intersectional feminist approach, arguing that the feminist movement must be inclusive of all races, classes, and sexual identities.

"Disproportionately, African American women invented feminism, and if you call it a white movement, you've eradicated … hundreds and hundreds of people who I learned from, who were my teachers," Steinem told Girls Leadership in 2017.

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Roxane Gay is a Haitian-American writer, professor, and editor. In 2014 she published the New York Times best-seller "Bad Feminist," a collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, and politics. "It just shows what it's like to move through the world as a woman," Gay told Time in 2014. "It's not even about feminism per se, it's about humanity and empathy."

As well as being a prominent voice in contemporary feminism, Gay and her co-author Yona Harvey became the first black women to be lead writers for Marvel when they were signed to write "World of Wakanda," a comic book spin-off of "Black Panther."

In 2017, Gay released her memoir "Hunger," an exploration of her upbringing and her relationship with everything from weight, to body image, to food.

Much of Gay's work is meant to deconstruct harmful and marginalizing themes in mainstream feminism. Gay is also a huge proponent of challenging toxic masculinity culture and empowering women who have endured painful experiences.

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Dolores Huerta is a Mexican-American labor leader and activist, and is the founder of the United Farm Workers of America. Huerta played a crucial role in the organization of the Delano grape strike of 1965.

She fought, and still fights, for workers' rights, immigrants' rights, and women's rights. Huerta has been awarded many accolades throughout her career in activism, and in 2012 received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights. Perhaps most notably in the present-day Latinx community, she's known as the originator of the "Sí, se puede" chant, which means "Yes, it is possible."

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Post about an inspirational black figure YOU know about. Cannot be someone we've discussed and cannot be MLK or Rosa Parks.

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Alexa Irene Canady. Born in 1950. She almost dropped out of school as a mathematics major BUT found out about a chance to win a minority scholarship in medicine. She graduated with a B.S. degree in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1971, and graduated from the medical school there in 1975. In 1981 she became the FIRST black neurosurgeon in the United States. She shortly became the chief of neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Michigan. The rest is history as she has received the Children's Hospital of Michigan's Teacher of the Year award in 1984, and was inducted into the Michigan Woman's Hall of Fame in 1989. In 1993, she received the American Medical Women's Association President's Award and in 1994 the Distinguished Service Award from Wayne State University Medical School. She retired in 2001.

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Ben Carson. At the age of 33, Dr. Carson became the chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, making him the youngest major division director in the hospital’s history. This would be among an extensive list of outstanding firsts for Dr. Carson. Dr. Carson’s accomplishments have earned him a place in medical history. He performed the first and only successful separation of craniopagus (Siamese) twins joined at the back of the head in 1987. He also performed the first fully successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins in 1997 in South Africa. In his career, Dr. Carson became a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and directed pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for over 29 years. He became the inaugural recipient of a professorship dedicated in his name in May 2008. He is now the Emeritus Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D. and Dr. Evelyn Spiro, R.N. Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery, having retired on June 30, 2013. He also ran for president of the united states in 2016. His list of accomplishments are of many (too many to list.)

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Which person has inspired you the most thus far that we've discussed? Why?

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Ruby Bridges at just the age of 6 years old was one of the first african americans to integrate into an all white school in Louisiana in 1960. Her parents had responded to a request from the NAACP and volunteered Ruby to participate in the integration process despite her fathers hesitation. Due to the danger, she was escorted by federal marshals every single day to ensure her safety. Her presence had white families remove their students and all teachers but one refused to teach with her being enrolled in the school. She would remain the only student in her class until the following year and she would eventually go on to graduate from a desegregated high school. Ruby Bridges went on to create a foundation in 1999. Describing the mission of the group, she says, "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it." Because of her bravery, our school systems are forever changed. She still lives today.

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Dr. James McCune Smith was a trailblazer in the medical field. Despite being denied admission to several American colleges because of racist admissions practices, Dr. Smith forged ahead and raised money to attend the University of Glasgow in Scotland. In 1837, after completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, he became the first black person to receive a medical degree. He later returned to America and became the first Black person to own and operate a pharmacy in the United States. On top of that, he also became the first Black physician to be published in U.S. medical journals. Dr. Smith used his extensive education, medical training, and personal experience to challenge racist notions, fight slavery, and advocate for the Black community.

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Alice Augusta Ball. Born July 24, 1892, Died December 31, 1916. She was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor. She utilized oil from the chaulmoogra tree, isolating oil into fatty acid components of different molecular weights allowing her to manipulate the oil into a water soluble injectable form. This was utilized for 30 years to help with leprosy until sulfone drugs were introduced. She was not credited for her work until 2007 because a coworker took ownership of it.

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W.E.B. Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

A famous historian, sociologist, and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois also made huge impacts on the field of public health! Through his ethnographic research featured in The Philadelphia Negro and The Souls of Black Folks, Du Bois and his work paved the way for highlighting the importance of the social and health consequences of racism and discrimination against African Americans.

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Jane Cooke Wright. In 1952, when her father died of tuberculosis, Wright became the head of the Cancer Research Foundation at age 33. She created an innovative technique to test the effect of drugs on cancer cells by using patient tissue rather than laboratory mice. She advanced to work as the director of cancer chemotherapy at New York University Medical Center, and she was an associate dean at New York Medical College.

The New York Cancer Society elected Wright as its first woman president in 1971. Her research helped transform chemotherapy from a last resort to a viable treatment for cancer.

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Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first black professional nurse in America, and an active organizer among African American nurses. She was born in Boston, on May 7, 1845, the oldest of three children. At the age of 18, she decided to pursue a career in nursing, working at the progressive New England Hospital for Women and Children. In 1878, at age 33, she was accepted in that hospital's nursing school, the first professional nursing program in the country. Of the 42 students who started that year, Mahoney was one of just four who graduated the next year. The training required 12 months in the hospital's medical, surgical, and maternity wards, lectures and instruction by doctors on the ward, as well as four months of work as a private-duty nurse.

After graduation, Mahoney registered for work as a private-duty nurse. Families that employed Mahoney praised her calm and quiet efficiency. Her professionalism helped raise the status of all nurses. At a time when nurses were often assigned domestic chores as well as nursing duties, she refused to take her meals with household staff. As he reputation spread, Mahoney received requests from patients as far away as New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina.

Mahoney was one of the first black members of the organization that later became the American Nurses Association (A.N.A.). When that later organization proved slow to admit black nurses, Mahoney strongly supported the establishment of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (N.A.C.G.N.), and delivered the welcome address at that organization's first annual convention, in 1909. In that speech, Mahoney recognized the inequalities in nursing education and called for a demonstration at the New England Hospital to have more African American students admitted. The conference members responded by electing her to be association chaplain and giving her a lifetime membership.

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Dr. Kizzimekia Corbett, PhD, is a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who is at the forefront of the development and production of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. At the beginning of the pandemic, she was among the few NIH scientists who briefed then-president Donald Trump on the coronavirus.

Corbett was born in Hurdle Mills, North Carolina, and grew up in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her teachers recognized her talent when she was very young, and they encouraged her mother to place her in advanced classes.

Dr. Corbett earned her BS in Biological Sciences with a secondary major in Sociology from the University of Maryland in 2008. While earning her BS, she earned the honors of Meyerhoff Scholar and NIH Undergraduate Scholar. She then earned her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014.

Upon graduation, she was appointed to the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In addition to her work developing the coronavirus vaccine, she has developed a universal influenza vaccine currently in Phase I clinical trials. She boasts 15 years of expertise, studying and developing solutions for the dengue virus, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, and coronavirus.

Dr. Corbett’s work and what she represents is vital in a country where Black students are less likely to engage in STEM fields.

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Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist who dedicated her life to fighting and defending gender equality. Though she was born into slavery, Truth escaped to freedom with her young daughter at the age of 29.

In 1828, she became the first black woman to win a custody court battle against a white man, and was able to recover her son from slavery. At the Ohio Women's Rights Convention of 1851, Truth delivered a speech titled "Ain't I a Woman?" that stirred hearts and became widely told during the Civil War era.

Truth was fearless in her fight for racial equality. She recruited black troops for the Union Army and attempted to secure land grants for former slaves after abolition. In the 1860s, she often rode streetcars in Washington D.C. to promote desegregation and publicly protest racism. Her efforts were acknowledged by President Abraham Lincoln, who invited her to the White House in 1864.

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"Get busy living or get busy dying." — Stephen King

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"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do" - Kobe Bryant

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

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What did you do this weekend?

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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron

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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney

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What tape job are you looking forward to learning and why?

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What are your goals for the last 2 quarters of the year?