I am a proud Ethnic Black American woman descended from persons enslaved within the US, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and Director of the Social Justice and Health Equity curriculum for Yale Psychiatry. My work expands the notion of iatrogenesis to include how medical racism and bias against people living with mental illness precipitate avoidable behavioral emergencies and patient harms during real-time clinical practice. I am a national advocate for removing police involvement from hospital medicine, including sponsoring Yale in an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) grant to reduce carceral practices at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.  My work honors historically minoritized representation within medical professionalism through culturally authentic approaches to physician excellence, including openly refusing to “code switch” in academic and clinical spaces. My leadership in academic and popular media spaces is evidenced by serving on multiple editorial boards, providing over 500 teaching hours annually at Yale School of Medicine, and making over forty-five public media appearances including National Public Radio (NPR), Newsweek, USA Today, and more.