Black History Month 2025 Podcast Series - McDermott+

Black History Month 2025 Podcast Series

To celebrate Black History Month 2025, Kayla Holgash sat down with influential Black leaders across the healthcare industry for a special series of our Health Policy Breakroom podcast.

These in-depth conversations highlighted our guests’ backgrounds and entry in the healthcare field, and explored their visions for the future of long-term care, digital health, maternal care, workforce entry, and more.

Steven Nash, Stoddard Baptist Home Foundation

Ashlee Wisdom, Health in Her HUE

Shafia Monroe, “Queen Mother of the Midwifery Movement”

Ellen Mitchell, MD, Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmologist