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Conversations with Dr. Akilah Cadet & Dr. McKenna Hereford

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet, an organizational development consulting firm that offers services that support embedding belonging into overall company culture, identity and strategy. As a Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneur her work is behind some of the biggest brands you use every day. Dismantling white supremacy through storytelling is at the core of her work as a leader, speaker, creative director, producer, writer, editor, co-owner of the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer teams, and author of White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World. Dr. McKenna ("Dr. Mac") Hereford is a licensed psychologist and owner of Reveal Psychological Services. She also operates Revealing the Ivory Tower podcast and social media accounts tackling mental health, science, and academia topics through a critical lens. Her clinical expertise includes neurodivergent people, serious mental illness, chronic illness, couples/relationship issues, queer clients, and sex therapy. Her research and training focuses on health disparities and culturally responsive care. In this Conversations With, Dr. Cadet and Dr. Hereford explore the intersections of white supremacy and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). Dr. Cadet shares her lived experience as a Black disabled woman through her recent surgery, discussing how white supremacy can show up in the diagnosis and care for someone who lives with EDS or HSD, and describing how we can create cultures of belonging, not othering in our EDS and HSD community. Dr. Hereford shares her observations of reactions toward Dr. Cadet's book announcement and her responses. She compares and contrasts her own experiences with EDS navigating healthcare and life and how her experience as a psychologist helps her self-reflect and advocate for others.