Program for Humanities in Medicine Thomas P. Duffy Lecture: "The White Student Body: Racialized Innocence and the Erasure of Black Student Activism"

Nientara Anderson is a third-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine (YSM). She is also completing an MHS degree in History of Science and Medicine. Her academic and professional background prior to medicine was rooted in visual art, visual studies, and the humanities. She is the co-president of the multidisciplinary reading group, History, Health, and Humanities (HHH), and a founding member of the YSM Committee for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (CDISJ). Nientara also serves on the Executive Planning Committee for RebPsych, a conference on psychiatry and social justice hosted at YSM. In addition, Nientara is the student director of "Making the Invisible Visible," a mandatory course for all incoming medical students that uses art to explore bias and hierarchies of power in medicine.