Sister Ejaaz AbdulKabir Color Blind Fighting for Diversity While Changing the Face of Midwifery From Within

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Born in Georgia, E’Jaaz Abdulkabir moved to the Virgin Islands at the age of 9. “Living in St. Croix was like living in a small town – surrounded by water,” said Abdulkabir. Her father was a physician. In fact, he was the attending physician during her birth and delivered her at home. For Abdulkabir, nursing was familiar and comfortable; and home births normal. After earning her Associate’s degree in nursing from the University of Virgin Islands, she worked in the post-partum unit at the local hospital. “I had a very different introduction to nursing than a lot of my colleagues. For the first five years of my career, the nurses I worked with were predominantly Black. It wasn’t ‘til I moved back to Georgia that I realized how different that was.”

Full article:  Color Blind (cuanschutz.edu)

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