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Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey
@foreverasheley.bsky.social
a writer who happens to like immunology research, BJJ, Fall Out Boy, and fashion
M2, UW-Madison MSTP
UCSF Propel Scholar, 2024
UChicago Questbridge Scholar 2021🇬🇭
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could I email some pieces then? 🥺
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As always, love to my FGLI medical family. It has been an exhausting year for us but I hope you know so many of us are not going to stop bringing attention to these issues.

Thank you to @KevinMD for giving me a space to talk about it.

kevinmd.com/2025/12/stud...
Student loan cuts for health professionals
New federal student loan cuts reclassify nursing and PA degrees as "non-professional," threatening diversity and exacerbating the health care shortage. Learn more.
kevinmd.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
being targeted and excluded from the health professions. It's so important to read between the lines with actions from our federal government, and do what we can to be educated on what is likely (and has always) been the true motivation for these changes.
Student loan cuts for health professionals
New federal student loan cuts reclassify nursing and PA degrees as "non-professional," threatening diversity and exacerbating the health care shortage. Learn more.
kevinmd.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Because I am tired of Black women having to greet the first moments of motherhood with fear, as if joy is something they must earn rather than something they deserve."
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If being vocal means that even one Black woman is more likely to survive childbirth, then I welcome the discomfort my honesty may bring.
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"I will keep speaking up. I will keep insisting on empathy. I will keep pushing my peers to interrogate their biases, even if it makes me "less likable" or "too outspoken."
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I can't stop writing because the world keeps giving me things to write about, especially things that are so angering and frustrating in a field I have dreamed of being in, but has (and still is) done so much harm to minoritized patients.

Sharing this ending quote from the op-ed
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM