Cafecito Time con Yaddy

Dr. Andrea Jacobo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rhodes College within the Urban Studies-Health Equity Program. Along with teaching, Andrea is also the Public Health Director for the Health in All Spaces grant, a multi-organization initiative addressing vaccine equity within the Memphis-Shelby County area. With 10 years of community health experience, Andrea has implemented various evidence-based nutrition and physical activity programs across the lifespan, co-led community of practices focused on health equity, and facilitated strategic planning processes for policy, systems and environmental change. She believes that community-centered, people-centered approaches are key to addressing health inequities. She has facilitated efforts to create national health equity legislation to build capacity to address racial health inequities experienced by communities of color. Andrea has a passion for community health, culture & arts, and uses design thinking as a tool for community and organizational capacity building.  Andrea has a Doctorate of Public Health degree at UC Berkeley. She has a Masters of Public Health from The University of Memphis and Bachelors of Science in Exercise Physiology from the University of Miami. She is also a multi-lingual spoken word artist, storyteller, and community health organizer. Her creative expression stems from her cultural roots and upbringing as a Afro-Domincanx American. Her writing is a tool to connect bridges across communities, disciplines, borders and cultures.

Dr. Andrea Jacobo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rhodes College within the Urban Studies-Health Equity Program. Along with teaching, Andrea is also the Public Health Director for the Health in All Spaces grant, a multi-organization initiative addressing vaccine equity within the Memphis-Shelby County area. With 10 years of community health experience, Andrea has implemented various evidence-based nutrition and physical activity programs across the lifespan, co-led community of practices focused on health equity, and facilitated strategic planning processes for policy, systems and environmental change. She believes that community-centered, people-centered approaches are key to addressing health inequities. She has facilitated efforts to create national health equity legislation to build capacity to address racial health inequities experienced by communities of color. Andrea has a passion for community health, culture & arts, and uses design thinking as a tool for community and organizational capacity building.  Andrea has a Doctorate of Public Health degree at UC Berkeley. She has a Masters of Public Health from The University of Memphis and Bachelors of Science in Exercise Physiology from the University of Miami.  She is also a multi-lingual spoken word artist, storyteller, and community health organizer. Her creative expression stems from her cultural roots and upbringing as a Afro-Domincanx American. Her writing is a tool to connect bridges across communities, disciplines, borders and cultures.

This week is a solo episode. Sharing my end of month/Beginning of month exercise I do.  Write a love note to the outgoing of month and a love note to the incoming month. Website: https://inyaddyswords.wixsite.com/inyaddyswords IG & TWITTER: @yaddyv_____ (5 underscores)

I sat dwon with Priscilla Pender and Intuitive coach from New Jersey. I met Priscilla in 2020 virtually in a writing class.  Priscilla's info: @thedoctorpri  Yaddy's  IG & Twitter : @yaddyv_____ website: https://inyaddyswords.wixsite.com/inyaddyswords

Juviza Rodriguez— Juvi to all who know her— is a mother, storyteller, and self proclaimed public health geek. She currently lives in Ossining, NY but was born and raised in Washington Heights and is incredibly proud of her roots. Juvi began journaling when she was 8 years old and has evolved into a creative non fiction writer. Her more recent pieces touch on the unspoken daily traumas that First Generation kids like her experienced living in Washington Heights in the 90’s. Juvi will be attending the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA) writing intensive this summer, and this Fall will start her PhD journey at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Juvi IG: @juvirod  Yaddy IG & Twitter : @Yaddyv_____ https://inyaddyswords.wixsite.com/inyaddyswords

Rita Vanessa is a digital marketing specialist. She teaches women founders of health & wellness brands how to retain customers through compelling, multichannel storytelling. Rita's : IG: @Ritavee Twitter: @Ritavee_ https://ritavee.substack.com/   Yaddy: IG & Twitter : @yaddyv_____ (5 underscores ) https://inyaddyswords.wixsite.com/inyaddyswords

Milta Lee IG: @LEES.NATURALS @VENUS.BIRTHINGSERVICES  WEBSITE: https://leesnaturals.bigcartel.com/   Yaddy's contact IG & Twitter  @yaddyv_____ (5 underscores https://inyaddyswords.wixsite.com/inyaddyswords

Marilyn Ramirez is a second generation immigrant born and raised in Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood in New York City. She is the daughter of working class parents and her keen observation of society led her to studies in Latino culture and masters degrees in sociology and special education. She’s been teaching for the past 15 years in the same neighborhood where she grew up. She is exploring her creative side and has written short stories about her culture and relationship with her mother published on DominicanWriters.com. She is currently working on her memoir. Marilyn lives with her two teenage children. She also has an adult son and a granddaughter who spends the summers with her. She enjoys traveling both with family and alone, reading and playing capoeira.  Find her work on soundcloud.com/marilynspeaks   IG @_marilynramirez IG & Twitter  @yaddyv_____ inyaddyswords.co

Community during a pandemic, what happened to me and why I went on a rant on my Instagram. Also on why we should start normalizing covid into our lives because is not going anywhere. Writing prompt: What is community? Explain what is community to you.  IG &Twitter: @yaddyv_____ inyaddyswords.co

My birthday is 1.30. . I write a letter to myself every year around my new year.  Writing/Journal prompt: Write a letter to yourself when your birthday is approaching.  "Dear (Type your incoming age) ," inyaddyswords.co IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is rigorously interrogative of himself and the world around him, conveying “nakedness of emotion, intent, and experience,” and he writes extensively about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. Roberto’s third collection, [Elegies], is published by Flower Song Press and his second poetry collection, black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric, is available from Willow Books.  Roberto’s first collection, Melancolía, is available from Červená Barva Press. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets Vol 4: LatiNEXT, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, The Root, Those People, Rigorous, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Gawker, Barrelhouse, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, and many others. He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books Publishing, A NonProfit Corp. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. www.robertocarlosgarcia.com Instagram: @robertobelike Twitter: @Thespokenmind  Bookstores where you can find Roberto's books: Word Up Books www.wordupbooks.com The Lit Bar: http://www.thelitbar.com/ inyaddyswords.co IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

Alicia Anabel Santos is a writer, producer, playwright, speaker, activist, teaching artist, Afro-latina lesbian storyteller and priestess. In 2019 she launched LA SANTERA LLC, offering clients support as they deepen their spiritual practice. Most recently, she facilitated two original workshops, Healing Anti-Blackness and The Dark Room. She was born in Brooklyn and is a proud Dominican Writer. She is the founder of the New York City Latina Writers Group and the 2018 recipient of the BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) for fiction Website : https://www.lasantera.nyc/ IG :  @_lasantera website: inyaddyswords.co IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

Angela "Angy"  Abreu is a Dominican-American mom, writer and community organizer.  Angy firmly believes that “if it does not exist then you must create it.” As a poet and community organizer, in 2014 she co-founded Wordat4F,Where Community Activism Meets the Arts”,a grassroots traveling open mic series that cultivated a love of spoken word, poetry and literature in the Uptown (Washington Heights, Inwood & Bronx) communities of New York City. Wordat4F began as an open mic series requested and hosted in secret locations and later made a home in Apt78, a local community hub. Wordat4F participated in Sankofa “Slamnesty: Activism through storytelling” and hosted the first ever Poetry Slam Competition in Washington Heights.  In 2015, feeling dismissed as a Dominican American writer in many literary spaces, she decided to create the Dominican Writers Association a 501 c3 non-profit organization solely dedicated to highlighting content that not only promotes the works of Dominican Writers but also provides them with the tools and resources necessary for their development. Angy is the Creative Director of Dominican Writers and along with the Board manages and creates content that serves a large population of writers: www.dominicanwriters.com IG: @dominicanwriters  Twitter: @domwriters  inyaddyswords.co IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

This is a solo episode. I felt the need to come on here and just talk joy and high vibration. Sharing some podcasts show & books. On my site there is a list of information I create.   Link: https://www.inyaddyswords.co/post/podcasts-and-books IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

Dominique Landry is a 2008 graduate in Business Management from Saint Joseph's University, is a co founder of Common Ground Management, a business development Firm, located in Philadelphia. Since 2008, Landry has worked with businesses ranging from fortune 500 to first day start-ups, as a consultant and as an account manager in his own firm. To date, CGM has assisted more than 6,000 businesses across the nation, start, sustain  and scale, through its services.  Instagram  @cgmphilly website :  www.cgmphilly.com Instagram & twitter : @yaddyv_____ website: inyaddyswords.co

Claudio E. Cabrera is an award-winning journalist and SEO expert who is currently the Deputy Director of News SEO at the New York Times and is viewed as one of the most influential Latinos in the global news space. Born to parents from the Dominican Republic who immigrated to New York City in the 1970s, Cabrera grew up in the predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Inwood in Northern Manhattan. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he went on to work for brands such as Black Enterprise, CBS News and has taught at the CUNY School of Journalism, Auburn University and the University of Oregon. He's also consulted for Spanish language brands such as La Tercera in Chile and was recently interviewed by Argentina's famed newspaper, La Nacion. Outside of his professional life, he's dedicated himself as an Afro-Latino to writing about issues of discrimination and colorism within Latino communities globally. At the end of this year, he plans on releasing his book titled "Y Tu Ere Dominicano/a" that focuses on colorism within the Dominican communities and his own struggles growing up as a dark-skin Dominican man. @Claudio.e.cabera  Website: inyaddyswords.co  IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

Something has been on my mind, gratitude. What happens when we can not find something to be grateful for? Inyaddyswords.co IG & Twitter  @yaddyv_____

Yaffa S. Santos was born and raised in New Jersey. Connecting with her Dominican heritage sparked her passion for cooking and its singular ability to bring people together. Yaffa is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing and visual art. She lives in Florida with her family.  We discussed her book "A Taste of Sage' ,  quarantine reflections, mental health and the current political climate.   Yaffa Santos  IG: @YAFFASANTOS.AUTHOR   Website: inyaddyswords.co IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

Maria is a Latinx/Dominican bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in NY, licensed in NY, PA, FL & MD. She has experience in child welfare, community mental health, private practice and clinical supervision. Maria provides counseling that is creative and collaborative to accommodate each person’s distinctive needs, experiences, and strengths. She works particularly well with LatinX, millennials, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Maria seeks to destigmatize and decolonize mental health by using a culturally affirming/anti-oppressive framework in her clinical work with clients and in clinical supervision.     Website:www.mariabautistalcsw.com  Email: info@mariabautistalcsw.com   Website: Inyaddyswords.co  IG & Twitter: @yaddyv____