Bush[/caption]This event is part of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Commem oration Week. It is free and is open to everyone. The conference will be virtual this year due to COVID-19 distancing re strictions. Registration is not required. This event will be recorded and a vailable for later viewing.
Panel Discussion on Activism featuring a live mes sage from Congresswoman Cori Bush. Panelists will share their work as activ ists in our community.
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Congresswoman Cori Bush is a regi stered nurse\, community activist\, organizer\, single mother\, and ordaine d pastor for the people of St. Louis. Congresswoman Bush is serving her fir st term as the representative of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District in t he United States House of Representatives. She is the first Black woman and first nurse to represent Missouri\; the first woman to represent Missouri’ s 1st Congressional District\; and the first activist from the movement fig hting for Black lives elected to the United States Congress.
Congress woman Bush has lived the struggles that many in her community face. She has personally experienced being unhoused and evicted and is a survivor of pol ice\, sexual\, and domestic violence. She centers those hardships in her fi ght for regular\, everyday people. Her mission is to do the very most for a ll of the people of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District—starting with tho se who have the very least.
Born and raised in St. Louis\, Congresswo man Bush graduated from Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School and studie d at Harris-Stowe State University before receiving a nursing degree from t he Lutheran School of Nursing. She has served her community for more than a decade as a nurse\, clergy\, and childcare worker. A relentless advocate f or the unhoused community in St. Louis\, Congresswoman Bush has spent years as a community organizer providing services and aid to her unhoused neighb ors in the district. In 2014\, following the murder of Michael Brown Jr. by a now-terminated Ferguson police officer\, Congresswoman Bush spent more t han 400 days protesting for justice — leading on the ‘Ferguson Frontline’ a s a nurse and clergy. During the day\, Bush was responsible for providing t riage-medical care and resources to the community that witnessed Mike Brown ’s body laying\, uncovered\, for four and a half hours in the hot St. Louis summer sun. In the evenings\, Bush would return to march for justice — sur viving police brutality in the process. In the years following\, she contin ued her activism as a co-founder of The Truth Telling Project and as a lead er of the protest group #ExpectUS.
Despite being the daughter of a lo cal mayor and alderman\, Congresswoman Bush never intended to run for offic e. Following the Ferguson Uprising\, Bush was asked to run for office by co mmunity leaders. Although she initially rejected their requests\, she pursu ed public office because she could not stand to see her son or daughter bec ome hashtags of injustice without doing all she could to protect them. She intends to legislate in defense of Black lives to ensure no family has to f ear that their loved ones may suffer at the hands of police. She also inten ds to center her experience as a nurse and as someone who’s been uninsured to advance policies like Medicare For All to guarantee health care as a fun damental right for everyone.
Congresswoman Bush is the recipient of t he 2015 "Woman of Courage" Award from the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation. In May of 2019\, she received the Herschel Walker Award at the 27th Annual He rschel Walker "Peace & Justice" Awards. In June of 2019\, she was selected Top Nurse by the International Nurses Association. In October of 2020\, the Jefferson City NAACP awarded Congresswoman Bush their prestigious "Trailbl azer Award."
Like our nation’s first Black congresswoman\, Shirley Ch isholm\, Congresswoman Bush is unbought and unbossed\, following a campaign in which she took no corporate PAC money. She is accountable only to the p eople of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District and will do all that she can to make sure every single person in her district\, in our country\, and ar ound the world lives a decent life.
"Our lives begi n to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
- - Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.
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This event is brought to you by the Office of Divers ity\, Equity and Inclusion and the Office of Diversity Programs with a spec ial thanks to the MLK Week committee members: Vicky Braun (WUSM IM- Gastroe nterology)\, Joel Dalton (WUSM Diversity Programs\, Biology & Biomedical Sc ience) Rosie Jones (WUSM Diversity Programs\, Biology & Biomedical Science) \, Valerie Joyner (Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion)\, Dorian Pierc e (BJCMG Access Center\, WUSM Otolaryngology)\, Liz Riggs (WUSM Diversity P rograms)\, Poli Rijos (WU Center for Community Health Partnership and Resea rch Institute for Public Health)\, Erin Stampp (Office of Diversity\, Equi ty & Inclusion)\, James Zerkel (WUSM Becker Medical Library)
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