Our first episode of 2025 features two aspiring doctors who met in their medical program in Dublin, Ireland. In this discussion we dive into burnout and self-care in a demanding academic and professional environment, strategies to address health inequities and future healthcare needs.

• Arianna Dart is a fourth-year medical student at Trinity College Dublin. She grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and always wanted to pursue a career in international relations and diplomacy. While completing her undergraduate degree, she pivoted and decided to study medicine. While her career goals have changed, her desire to connect and work with people from different backgrounds, cultures, and languages has not. She strives to provide patient care guided by empathy, cultural competence, and shared decision-making. She hopes to one day combine her love for internationalism and her medical career and work for Doctors Without Borders.
• Julia Malone is a fourth-year medical student studying at Trinity College Dublin. She grew up in Ottawa, Canada and completed her undergraduate degree at Rollins College in Florida, where she majored in Chemistry and played on the varsity golf team. From a young age she knew she wanted to pursue a career in health care. She hopes to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology as she has a passion for women’s health, recognizing the significant gaps in research and funding that currently exist in this field. She is determined to integrate research into her future practice, aiming to contribute to advancements in women's health and advocate for improved resources and support in this field.

https://knowyournetworkpodcast.com/

This week's episode of Know Your Network is focused on Migration, an industry that supports the resettlement and integration of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers. Our guests today are Nancy Rosas and Madina Tokhi. Nancy and Madina met a few years ago at their work for a non-profit supporting immigrants in the Washington, DC metro area.

• Nancy Rosas has a background in international affairs with a dual Master’s from the University of Malta in Conflict Resolution and Mediterranean Security. She moved to the US when she was 2 years old from Bolivia, and brings this experience and passion for human rights advocacy to her career and her current work as an Asylum Officer for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
• Madina Tokhi is an Afghan-American who grew up in the Washington, DC area. Her passion for serving her community led her into immigration advocacy and interpretation work, which coincided with the post-withdrawal Afghan crisis. She currently works at Catholic Charities providing support to migrants and their families as they enter and integrate into life in the U.S. Madina is also a mother, and currently a student pursuing a degree in health informatics.

https://knowyournetworkpodcast.com/

This episode of Know Your Network is focused on Reproductive Health (Repro), an area of healthcare which is critical in meeting the health needs of women, mothers and families.

Our guests today are Heather Irons and Daisy Orellana. Heather and Daisy met as colleagues at their current clinic.

• Heather Irons is originally from Florida and majored in Philosophy. Heather got involved with reproductive rights while a student in college, initially working to help escort women safely to abortion centers. Her interest and passion for expanding reproductive health access and advocating for people’s health care rights continued to evolve. She now works as an Abortion Doula at a private abortion clinic in Washington, DC and cares for patients from across the country every week.
• Daisy Orellana grew up in Northern California. During a college study aboard program in Mexico, she was first exposed to Doula work as a way of providing mental, physical and emotional support to pregnant people. Daisy underwent doula training and worked for a number of years as a Birth Doula in the San Francisco area before moving across the country to DC. She is now an Abortion Doula working alongside Heather at a private abortion clinic in DC.

https://knowyournetworkpodcast.com/