|Videos|June 4, 2021

November 2020 Pull Up A Seat: Cancer While Black

The Tigerlily Foundation and Guiding Researchers and Advocates for Scientific Partnerships (GRASP) November conversation focused on what it means to have “Cancer While Black: Moving Past the Medical Mistrust Impact."

The Tigerlily Foundation and Guiding Researchers and Advocates for Scientific Partnerships (GRASP) November conversation was co-hosted by keynote speaker, Mr. Shawn Johnson, a medical student in the Pathways M.D. program at Harvard Medical School, and our patient experts, La’Kesha Jackson-Gordon, LaTayla Palmer, Tova Parker, Na’Diah Smith and Temi Omaghomi. The panelists focused on what it means to have “Cancer While Black: Moving Past the Medical Mistrust Impact.”

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