Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: June 17, 2022

June 17, 2022

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"Protect Your Peace"

Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, Barbara Wilson Endowed Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Pillar Lead for Community Engagement, Institute of Excellence for Health Equity, New York University Langone; Assistant Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

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00:00We are in for we are in for a real
00:04treat today as as you all know.
00:08Before I introduce our our
00:12graduation address presenter,
00:14let me just make a few housekeeping comments.
00:18One is just to acknowledge that we've
00:21had a wonderful graduation ceremony at
00:23the Greenberg Center for our psychology
00:26interns last night we had the residents
00:29graduation ceremony at the Lawn Club and
00:32at 4:00 o'clock today we'll have a a
00:35virtual graduation ceremony for our fellows.
00:38This is a. A wonderful time of year and
00:42just an incredible reminder of how just.
00:46A talented and wonderful
00:49are are trainees are and.
00:52And it's just a pleasure to see them
00:56move forward in their lives and careers.
00:59A reminder also that the mission
01:02Vision Values Questionnaire is out.
01:05Kyle, you're going to put in the chat a
01:09link so that people who have not yet had
01:12an opportunity to to provide feedback
01:15on the mission vision value statement
01:17that was drafted drafted by the committee.
01:21I want to thank.
01:22Again,
01:22Kylie for you for leading the effort
01:24to pull that draft together and for
01:27the many people on that committee.
01:29Who worked very hard to to come up with
01:34the draft that is being shared at this point.
01:38I also want to acknowledge.
01:41Next week is the state of the department
01:45address and in the usual grand rounds slot.
01:49And I I look forward to sharing a few
01:52thoughts about the department at that time.
01:55So today it's my tremendous pleasure
01:58to welcome back somebody who's
02:00never really left,
02:02and in our hearts will never
02:04really leave Ayanna Jordan,
02:06who is the Barbara Wilson associate
02:09professor of psychiatry pillar
02:10lead for community engagement in
02:13the Institute for Excellence in
02:15HealthEquity at New York University.
02:20Ayana got her MD and pH.
02:22D degrees at Albert Einstein University.
02:25She completed her Residency
02:27Addiction Fellowship here at Yale,
02:30joined our faculty,
02:32and and contributed to our
02:34department in so many ways.
02:37As associate program director of the
02:39Residency director of the Yale Global
02:42Mental Health Residency Program,
02:43director of the Social Justice and
02:46HealthEquity curriculum in the
02:48residency director of the medication.
02:51The addiction treatment
02:53consultation center at CMHC,
02:55and she's really quite
02:56accomplished in many many ways,
02:58but I'll I'll just highlight her R1 funded
03:02Pro research program with Cheryl Bellamy,
03:06the Imani Breakthrough Project,
03:08which is an incredible initiative
03:11which collaborates with local churches,
03:14local African American churches.
03:18Predominantly African American churches to.
03:21To.
03:23Be loci for addiction treatment.
03:29Ayana is accomplished in so many other ways.
03:32There's not time to really address
03:35all of her accomplishments today,
03:38but as a resident she was a member
03:40of the American Psychiatric
03:41Association Board of trustees.
03:43She's been a speaker involved in
03:45the National Academies of Science,
03:48Engineering, and Medicine Action
03:50Collaborative on research training.
03:52She's someone who has been recognized
03:55repeatedly for her outstanding
03:56contributions to residency.
03:58Education, including two PPRA
04:00teaching awards she's received,
04:03travel awards and other awards for
04:05many from many other organizations,
04:08both in the space of education
04:11and in research so.
04:14But but most importantly,
04:16Iona is a is a force of nature,
04:20someone who who who?
04:26Calls things as she sees them and
04:29the honesty and power of her words
04:33were highly valued at when she
04:35was full time in New Haven, but.
04:40Make us very much look forward
04:42to to hearing her today and and
04:45seeing how her career progresses.
04:48So Aiyana just a thrill to to
04:52that that you are speaking with us
04:55today and sharing your thoughts on
04:59protecting your peace so. Please,
05:03thank you so much John.
05:05That was really just a wonderful,
05:07heartfelt introduction and I appreciate
05:09you kind of outlining all of the
05:12things because sometimes you forget,
05:14so it's good to be shared
05:17on the larger platform.
05:18Thank you John so much.
05:20I deeply, deeply appreciate that I'm
05:23going to go ahead and share my screen.
05:27Can you all see?
05:29The slides OK, awesome thank you.
05:32And for those of you who
05:34have heard me speak before,
05:37you know I really.
05:40Have I think been socialized in
05:42the way of call and response and I
05:45really need you guys to participate
05:47in the best way that you can.
05:49So I'm going to call on you several times
05:52throughout this talk to participate,
05:54so don't feel shy to take yourself
05:57off mute and respond back because
06:00I will ask a few questions.
06:04So the title of the talk is
06:06really protect your peace. PE ACE.
06:09Protect your peace and I just want to again,
06:14thank the graduates for allowing
06:16me to give this talk today.
06:19I want to start off by saying you did it,
06:23you made it.
06:24You are still standing here and I am
06:28just so excited for the next chapter.
06:31So really, just an immense gratitude.
06:34To the Yale Psychiatry graduating
06:37class of 2020, 2020 22.
06:41With all that I do,
06:43I'd like to start off with land
06:46acknowledgements to really honor the
06:48indigenous people who are allowing us
06:51to borrow the the land in which we do
06:54research and take care of patients.
06:57All land in Connecticut,
06:58where I am right now,
06:59was once native territory,
07:01and it is our duty to acknowledge
07:03that many of the institutions
07:05where we work where we take care
07:08of patients or conduct research
07:10are indeed on native land.
07:11So we give thanks to the indigenous
07:14people for allowing us to be here.
07:16Always remembering that landing
07:18demolishment's do not exist in the
07:20past tense or historical context.
07:22Colonialism is a current ongoing
07:25process and we need to be mindful
07:28of our present participation.
07:30So I'd like to thank the
07:32indigenous peoples and nations,
07:34including Mohegan Mason Tucket Pequot
07:38Eastern Pequot Scatacook, Golden,
07:42Hill Percocet, Niantic, Quinnipiac.
07:46And other Algonquian speaking peoples
07:48who have stewarded through generations.
07:51The lands and waterways of what is
07:54now the state of Connecticut oshay.
07:58I don't have any disclosures,
08:01no financial disclosures,
08:02no conflicts of interest except I
08:06will always love y'all physiatry.
08:09This is the environment that made me.
08:12I am so grateful to be socialized
08:14in the streets of New Haven and
08:16to really have my training here.
08:18I'd like to thank the leadership
08:21shout out to John Crystal for
08:23shepherding me for over 11 years,
08:25the residents collaborators.
08:27Colleagues and friends,
08:29and especially the class of 2022.
08:36So before I really get into it,
08:38I want to be very honest to what
08:40kind of John was alluding to this
08:44sense of authenticity when I heard
08:46from John and Trish and JD a,
08:49Jennifer Dolan, Auden that I would
08:51have the chance to do this talk.
08:53I was spending so much time
08:56thinking about what I wanted to say
08:59to you all the graduating class.
09:02I had to figure out what exactly
09:05what I am part this morning.
09:08And that led to so much contemplation,
09:11mainly in part because of my recent
09:14transition away from Yale to NYU,
09:16I wanted to be seen as this Wiz this this
09:20guy that had all of this wisdom to impart,
09:23reflect on what I've learned,
09:25how high I have developed in
09:28my career over the years.
09:30But also,
09:31I just wanted to be very real
09:34and to acknowledge how many of
09:37us are feeling at this time.
09:39And the word that came to mind
09:42for me was depleted.
09:44Given the state of the world and
09:46all that we've experienced globally
09:48over these past through few years,
09:51I really,
09:52genuinely feel like the world is on fire,
09:55so I was really torn and I called
09:57Tobias Doctor Wasser and I was
10:00looking for some inspiration.
10:02How could I possibly inspire
10:04or imbue hope during this time
10:08without being authentic?
10:10Because at the very heart of the matter,
10:12that is who I am and authentic
10:15person who has learned to lean
10:18into my leadership style speak up.
10:22Even when my voice shakes and help
10:24others to develop and nurture their
10:27individual talents and skill sets
10:29that make them the incredible leaders
10:32and change makers that they are.
10:34So today I say to you,
10:37you are a class of change agents.
10:41This is indeed a time of celebration,
10:44a time of great achievement.
10:46And I promise you we will get there, right?
10:49We'll get to the accolades.
10:51But before we do.
10:52Get to the other side and celebrate
10:55all that you accomplished,
10:57especially during such trying times.
11:00We must take a moment to reflect.
11:05Reflect all that has happened.
11:10We must take a look back
11:13and the spirit of sankofa,
11:16a symbol of African wisdom and teaching.
11:19We must look back to
11:21understand how to move forward.
11:23So for the icon people of Ghana,
11:25this bird picture here is generally
11:28depicted with its head turned backwards.
11:31Taking an egg from its back and this really
11:35expresses the importance of reaching
11:37back to gain knowledge of the past.
11:40And bringing it into the present
11:42in order to make positive progress.
11:45So for the next few minutes.
11:47That is what I'm going to do.
11:49No matter, no matter how painful it may be,
11:52I am going to take a look back from 2020
11:55until now to see all that we've been through.
11:58I do want to put up a warning because
12:01I am going to be talking about grief.
12:04Death. Racism and terrorism.
12:09So what that let me review a few moments
12:13over the past years that have forever
12:15changed me as a leader as a physician,
12:19as a physician scientist,
12:21and I hope that has changed you.
12:24Beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic.
12:32Devastation felt worldwide. Well,
12:37we live the uncertainty of what's to come.
12:42The outward surprisingly rejection by so
12:45many as scientific principles and advances.
12:49Not having access to personal protective
12:52equipment early in the pandemic being
12:56and just unabashedly vulnerable,
12:58I'm going to tell you I during
13:02the pandemic working at Yale,
13:04I prepared a will for the
13:07very first time in my life.
13:09Not really knowing what's that going to be
13:13infected in a way that would leave my family.
13:18In what, in my absence,
13:19so much heartache, despair,
13:22millions of lives lost and an ongoing
13:26question questioning of what is to come.
13:30A global lockdown demanded us to reflect.
13:36What are our core values?
13:39What is essential?
13:41What is most important in life and one
13:45of the things that I will say to you?
13:47The graduating class of 2022 is
13:50you have to slow down and reflect.
13:53If the pandemic didn't do it.
13:57I am asking you if you take nothing from
13:59this lecture today or this graduation talk,
14:02you have to slow down.
14:04You have to figure out your core values.
14:06What is essential? What is the
14:09legacy that you would like to leave?
14:13Next, George Floyd.
14:16May 25th, 2020 will forever.
14:21Change our lives. It's been over two years.
14:26Since a police officer.
14:29Assassinated George Floyd in Minneapolis.
14:35I can't breathe.
14:39I cannot breathe calling out for his
14:42mother for the whole world to watch.
14:45For nearly nine minutes until
14:47he took his last breath.
14:50His death, triggering a global
14:52introspection of race relations in
14:54this country and throughout the world.
14:57What does it mean to be black in America?
14:59What does it mean to be black in the world?
15:02What does it mean to truly
15:04show up as an ally?
15:05What does it mean to take
15:07care of black patients?
15:08How could we, the collective we
15:12not stand by and do anything?
15:16This. Global display of violence
15:20must propel us to act.
15:23We must do something our
15:25patients are depending on us.
15:28The future is depending on us.
15:31Do not allow summers of protests
15:34demanding racial justice and
15:36advancements in all facets of
15:39academic institutions to be stalled.
15:42Class of 2022 I need you.
15:46This should spur you to action.
15:50The opioid crisis thousands of
15:53unintentional deaths due to drug overdoses,
15:58largely spurred now for fentanyl ingestion,
16:01a devastation of whole communities.
16:04We watch neighborhoods and
16:07States and total disarray.
16:10Graduating class,
16:11what are you doing about this?
16:14How were you helping in a way
16:16that is going to make it impact?
16:18Should you be involved in advocacy?
16:21Public policy.
16:22Supporting the opiate Treatment Access Act.
16:25Thinking about safe supply,
16:28thinking about harm reduction
16:30this has to propel you to act.
16:33January 6th insurrection.
16:38White supremacy on display.
16:43A full on attack on our democracy.
16:47Violence and rage up front and center.
16:53How did we get here?
16:55Where are we going as a nation?
16:59Vicarious trauma associated
17:02with the public display of hate.
17:06Graduating class of 2022.
17:09If we if you never thought that
17:13your presence is necessary,
17:15it is indeed essential.
17:17Now we have to have experts to help us
17:23process this trauma. Anti Asian hate.
17:26Starting with the pandemic.
17:28Well not starting but being exacerbated.
17:32I think by the pandemic calling it
17:34the Chinese flu and many off color
17:37remarks leading to violence and death.
17:40A multitude of killings are Asian
17:43brothers and sisters feeling unsafe
17:46to walk the streets to leave their
17:48homes to practice in the hospital
17:51for fear of them being attacked.
17:53What can you do to help?
17:56What does it mean to really show
17:58up and be a ally class of 2022?
18:03The Buffalo killing.
18:06Say their names. Again,
18:09the vileness of anti black racism.
18:12The false and inherently dangerous
18:15belief in the superiority of whiteness
18:17and the replacement theory on display.
18:20How do we show care to
18:23those who are affected?
18:25How do we move forward as a nation?
18:30And finally the Uvalde killings.
18:36Children and teachers.
18:39I like killed parents and anguish.
18:43A whole community,
18:45a whole nation forever affected kids
18:48and communities likely in need of life.
18:51Long psychiatric support.
18:54Graduating class of 2022.
18:57We need you. You are necessary.
19:01Stand up, show out, speak up.
19:05You have had amazing training.
19:08You have had awesome.
19:12Privilege how can you leverage that
19:15privilege to bring about change?
19:17This is the time.
19:21Why am I sharing all this during a
19:24graduation? Speech Doctor Jordan you
19:26were brought here to inspire one of the
19:30things that I must say is that you you
19:34all the graduating class are still here.
19:38The very fact that you survived all
19:41that I just discussed. During training.
19:46Inherently shows that there is
19:48a very purpose in your being.
19:51Just in your presence. But I must say.
19:56There were hashing of such tragic events.
19:59It's necessary because that is the reality.
20:03This is the truth.
20:04This is the reality of the of the world
20:08as we know it and graduating class.
20:11If you want different for the future,
20:14you have to be the change that
20:17you have to see.
20:19You must persist, you must.
20:23Be unapologetic about being change
20:26agents 1 foot in front of the other,
20:30figuring it out trying to affect
20:33change to help others live
20:36more fuller and optimal lives.
20:39We must never forget the sadness
20:41we must plug into the pain,
20:43because only in that depth
20:45of anguish are we really,
20:48really called to move and understand
20:50the need of need for change.
20:53So class of 2022 in this time of cocount
20:57contemplation in the spirit of Sankofa,
21:00how can you look back and learn from
21:03the past in order to move forward?
21:06I'd like to share a poem from Amanda Gorman.
21:11She is an American poet and activist.
21:13Gorman was the first person to be
21:16named the National Youth Poet Laureate.
21:19And it's called him for the hurting.
21:25Everything hurts.
21:27Our hearts shadowed and strange.
21:31Mines made muddled, muddied and mute.
21:35We carry tragedy.
21:38Terrifying and true.
21:40And yet none of it is new.
21:43We knew it as home.
21:46As horror as heritage,
21:49even our children cannot be children.
21:53Cannot be. Everything hurts.
21:56It's a hard time to be alive.
22:00And even harder to stay that way,
22:03we're burdened to live out these days while
22:07at the same time the last to outlive them.
22:12This alarm is how we know we must be
22:16altered that we must differ or die,
22:20that we must triumph or try.
22:24That's while hate cannot be terminated.
22:27It can be transformed into
22:30a love that lets us live.
22:34May we not just grieve, but give?
22:37May we not just ache but act?
22:42May our sign right to bear arms never
22:45blind our sight from shared harm.
22:49May we choose our children over chaos?
22:52May another innocent never be lost?
22:56Maybe everything hurts our hearts,
23:00shadow and strange,
23:02but only when everything hurts.
23:05May everything change.
23:10Everyone that can hear my voice,
23:12I just ask for a moment of silence for
23:16us to reflect on all of the lives lost.
23:20All that we have been through.
23:23And yet we are still standing.
23:2630 seconds of silence, please.
24:05Thank you. All right? Class of 2022.
24:11I'm going to share with you.
24:15The inner experience.
24:17Of what kept coming to me during my
24:21periods of introspection and reflection.
24:24If you all don't know,
24:26Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5
24:28let me give take this opportunity
24:31to school you on one of the Best
24:35Hip Hop groups ever, all right.
24:39I'm just gonna play it.
24:40I think you guys will
24:42understand why it's necessary,
24:44but let me make sure my
24:46volumes up here we go.
24:50Ohh
24:53no. No. Wait, I gotta stop sharing because
25:00I have got to play this. This is key.
25:06Don't worry, technical difficulties but.
25:09Wait? Maybe I can share it this way.
25:16You might not be able to see it,
25:18but you can still listen.
25:21You couldn't make it.
25:23Sneak 'cause I'm close to the edge.
25:27I'm trying not to lose my head.
25:33Times the Bixby wonder how
25:35about keeping going under?
25:37It's like a jungle.
25:38Sometimes it makes me wonder how I
25:40keep from going under so brothers
25:42doing fast though my mother's TV
25:43says she watched it too much.
25:45It's just not healthy.
25:46Alright, I gotta play it again.
25:48Here we go.
25:52Because I'm close to the edge,
25:55I'm trying not to lose my head.
26:01Sometimes it makes me wonder how
26:03about you keep from going under hey.
26:07Wonder how I keep from going under?
26:10Alright guys I'm gonna stop sharing.
26:12I'm gonna have to do that with but don't
26:16push me because I'm close to the edge.
26:20I'm trying not to lose my head.
26:24It's like a jungle. Sometimes it makes
26:26me wonder how I keep from going under.
26:27OK, that is the Internet experience.
26:30Y'all don't push me because I'm
26:32close to the edge now graduates.
26:34Why is she playing Grandmaster
26:37Flash at the graduation speech?
26:39Because many of us. Are close to the edge.
26:43Many of us are trying to figure out how
26:46do we keep from losing our head right?
26:50And so that is the spirit of which I
26:53give this talk. Protect your peace.
26:57Alright, protect your white PE ACE,
27:02so let me get back to the top.
27:05And we'll get into it,
27:07but it's important guys.
27:08It's important to protect your peace.
27:11I don't want to share that I need to
27:14get out of my. I'm going to close this.
27:18And. And get back to the actual.
27:24Top.
27:25All right,
27:26here we go.
27:30Alright, so. What do I
27:34mean by protect your piece?
27:36I often and can you all see
27:38that you guys have to tell me?
27:40OK, good is really the words of Audrey,
27:44Lord, who is just an amazing activist.
27:48Poet may she up forever rest in peace
27:50but she says self preservation is
27:52an act of political warfare, right?
27:55Caring for myself is not self indulgence.
27:58It is self preservation and that is
28:01indeed an act of political warfare.
28:03So what that that song helped me to
28:07see coupled with this quote that I
28:10hold dearly into my heart is that we
28:13have to find a way to live through
28:15and manage the multiple tragedies.
28:18AN and day out graduating class in
28:21order for us to help anyone else and
28:24be the best change made agents that
28:27we can be and be the best leaders in
28:30scientific innovators of tomorrow.
28:32We have to center our own selves.
28:35We have to figure out a way to access
28:38psychological Wellness so that we
28:41are indeed available to serve others.
28:43Because self preservation really
28:46is talking about radical.
28:48About care which allows for psychological
28:51Wellness at that begets self actualization.
28:55And so when I got that right,
28:58protect my peace. Self preservation
29:01as an act of political warfare.
29:04It was so simple.
29:05I was like I know what we need
29:08to do as psychiatrist.
29:09I know what we need to do as leaders
29:11in the field of mental health with an
29:14ever growing need for our expertise.
29:16Given the ongoing trauma,
29:17death and despair that is,
29:19there is not a more crucial time
29:23to protect yourself.
29:24To garner and really think about
29:26what do you need to be?
29:28Well, this was the inspiration for the top.
29:32Protect your piece.
29:34Now I need the graduates to unmute,
29:37mute yourself, unmute,
29:39it's OK, it's OK, we're family.
29:42We know what another like John says at
29:46graduation. He will always take credit.
29:49Yale Psychiatry will always take credit
29:51for whatever you do, so we're family.
29:53Now unmute yourself I want you is everybody.
29:57I'm unit, I can't see everybody,
29:59just the graduates graduates.
30:01Don't let me down here.
30:03I need you.
30:04Alright,
30:05what I want you guys to do is
30:08to repeat after me.
30:10I must protect my peace.
30:16I must protect my teeth.
30:19OK, let's try this again y'all.
30:21Cause we weren't really in unison,
30:23but I am feeling very encouraged
30:25and inspired that you are going
30:27to get it together on 321.
30:29I'm going to go first,
30:30then you repeat after me.
30:32I must protect my peace.
30:36I must protect.
30:38Peace, I must protect my peace.
30:46I must protect my thank you in order
30:50for you all to lead authentically
30:55empathize fully and take care of
30:58others during time such as these.
31:01You must protect your peace because
31:04how can we truly be leaders in the
31:07field of psychiatric innovation,
31:09research and clinical care and help
31:12others access Wellness if we are not?
31:15Indeed, taking care of ourselves, everybody.
31:18When you're feeling overwhelmed.
31:20TuneIn, what did Doctor Jordan say?
31:22I must protect my peace all right.
31:27So now we're going to go through
31:29Everywhere poll and I'm going to
31:31ask everyone here because I want to
31:33share this with the graduates when
31:35we're done is to come up with the
31:37word cloud of what is 1 activity that
31:39you all can do and this is a shared
31:43experience to protect your peace and.
31:45All of the answers that we come up with,
31:47I'm going to save and give to the
31:50graduates so they have it on display.
31:53So let me get go to guys.
31:56I'm doing a whole bunch of multimedia.
31:58I didn't know, but my links aren't working,
32:00but that's OK.
32:00I'm rolling with it because I must
32:02protect my peace and it's going
32:04to be what it's going to be.
32:05So I'm figuring it out.
32:08But I'm going to.
32:11Go here.
32:12And I'm going to share with you all how to.
32:17Get on.
32:19Wait?
32:22I'm going to. Go here. All right,
32:27and hopefully it'll let me share.
32:36OK, can you all see that?
32:40Yeah, all right.
32:40So what I want you guys to do is to,
32:43uh, take out your phone.
32:45And you're going to in the two
32:48where you put the number you're
32:50going to put 37607 and then
32:52where you type in the message,
32:54you're going to put Ayanna Jordan 444.
33:00Ayanna Jordan 444. And it should
33:05say that you are able to. Join
33:16and So what I would love for you
33:19to do is Yep, start to type ways in
33:21which you can protect your peace.
33:28I'm going to keep doing that for.
33:54This is awesome guys. This is awesome.
33:57Awesome. Keep going, keep going.
34:11OK. Slowing down anymore last minute.
34:15This is great. I love this,
34:18so for those who may not know the way
34:20that it works out works, is that the
34:22more people say things that are similar,
34:25the larger that the word is,
34:27the more that you have kind
34:28of overlap or agreement.
34:30The larger that that word or phrase is.
34:32So I love that you guys are saying family
34:35and boundaries friends, time truths no.
34:41Speak garden therapy.
34:43Practice water dance,
34:46meditate vacation hugs with wisdom on and on.
34:52And so I want us to really center these
34:55things because we're going to need to access
34:58these things in order to be successful.
35:00In order to truly be those change agents,
35:03we can't move forward, right?
35:05If we don't protect our peace.
35:07So thank you so much for that.
35:09I'm going to stop sharing.
35:10I'm going to lock in those.
35:12Responses and I'll send
35:13them out to Trisha and JD.
35:16A Jennifer Dolan ottan so that she
35:18can share it with our graduating
35:20class because I think that's
35:23really important to remember.
35:24The importance of protecting your peace,
35:27but also what can you actually do?
35:30Having some tangible examples all right?
35:33So let me go back to.
35:36Umm?
35:37The presentation and.
35:41As you all have seen,
35:44there are many different ways
35:45that you can protect your peace.
35:46I just wanted to share my list with
35:50you that I have really developed over
35:53the last really two years and I wanted
35:56to have this concept of a minimal
35:59meeting summer and those who've you
36:02who know me know that I love Twitter.
36:05That's one of my ways to just kind of
36:07really interact with the world and
36:09learn about different research papers,
36:10etcetera.
36:11Advocate and Doctor Eugenia South.
36:15She had this amazing tweet and it
36:17inspired me to protect my summer right
36:20as a means of protecting my peace.
36:22So she says my second annual
36:26minimal meaning summer starts
36:28on July 5th in order to prepare.
36:31I've already started to say not now.
36:33Reach back out in the fall
36:36to meetings for me.
36:37This is about career sustainability,
36:40Wellness and joy.
36:41Yeah,
36:41I really do think graduating class
36:44of 2022 you all get it better
36:47than some of us from Generation
36:50Y or geriatric millennials is
36:52really thinking about how can you
36:54organize your time in a way that
36:57you can have career sustainability,
36:59Wellness and joy.
37:00So I'm going to be enacting this July 5th.
37:03I encourage you all to join in with
37:05me if you ask me for a meeting.
37:08You heard it here at the
37:10commencement talk of 2022.
37:11Minimal meaning summers Doctor
37:13Jordan is protecting her peace.
37:16Another thing is really saying no to new
37:19projects until old ones are completed.
37:22I know how interesting it may be,
37:24but I don't know if you guys
37:26have seen that mean where there's
37:28somebody looking that the next
37:29best thing we have to finish up
37:31all things before we say
37:33yes to something new.
37:35Accepting help from others.
37:37Charlotte intimately knows this.
37:40It's so hard. For me,
37:42or it has been so hard for me to say yes,
37:46I need help from others,
37:47but I realize that as I get
37:51more advanced in my career,
37:52this is indeed necessary, right?
37:56Also shout out to Doctor
37:58Joel Allison weekly therapy.
38:01I always say even on Twitter
38:04every Tuesday at 11 that is my
38:08time to really go through and see
38:11how I'm doing psychologically.
38:13Am I well?
38:14Do I need just a period of
38:17rest so I encourage you all to
38:19get whatever mental health or
38:22psychiatric treatment that you need?
38:24Facetiming with my nieces and nephews,
38:26I realized that I am no longer young.
38:29My nephew, who is 12 about to be 13,
38:32said Auntie.
38:33Your slang is so old you're embarrassing me.
38:36So really protecting my peace is
38:38thinking about how can I surround
38:41myself with young people with loved
38:43ones that keep me relevant and
38:46encouraged and can tune out from the
38:48horrors that are often happening.
38:51Not listening to the news.
38:53These are some things that just.
38:54Are necessary to protect my peace.
38:56Limiting social media.
38:58Taking social media breaks.
39:00Instagram is good but we all know.
39:04IG is not the truth right?
39:06So sometimes as we think about
39:08going out in our own leadership,
39:11we have to pull back and take
39:14me breaks from social media.
39:17In my own career and I and
39:19ioffer this as an example,
39:20I've had to surround myself with
39:23black academicians who understand
39:25the daily struggles of what it
39:27is to really work and operate,
39:29and institutions that really
39:31perpetuate white supremacy and
39:34really think about how can we center
39:36other ways to do things differently.
39:39I surround myself with allies
39:42that truly understand what it
39:45is to fight for justice.
39:47Many of whom are here today
39:49and then finally donating to
39:52social justice organizations.
39:53I just wanted to bring up these
39:56couple of pictures because it really
39:59underscores some of the things that
40:02happen at Yale and I'm speaking to the
40:05graduates now because I didn't realize.
40:08Back when I came to Yale in 2011,
40:11the lasting friendships that would
40:14allow me to have a sense of Wellness
40:18to be able to do all that I do so
40:23shout out to Noah and Dale and Brady.
40:26We all train together.
40:28We were in the CIU together, y'all.
40:30We were in WS2 together CMHC for floor.
40:35These relationships has has begun at Yale
40:40and lasted throughout over a decade,
40:43right?
40:44And really seeing that.
40:46The relationships that you all have
40:48made at Yale will indeed sustain you.
40:51Don't be afraid to reach out
40:53to people to keep in touch.
40:55This is a way to really lean
40:59into your leadership and really
41:02be whole while doing so.
41:04And I just wanted to highlight
41:06all of the lovely black women
41:08that are now a part of the Yale
41:11Psychiatry Residency program.
41:13I'm getting for client.
41:23How can we enter spaces and
41:26make them more inclusive?
41:31Yo graduating class of 2022.
41:34You all truly inspire me because you
41:37all there are the change that I know.
41:41Will come to pass.
41:43This generation gets it.
41:45You all get it and I encourage
41:47you to enter spaces and and leave
41:50them better than they came in.
41:53So when I say to you,
41:55I'll protect your peace.
41:56It's not just because it's like oh,
41:58a nice thing to say.
42:00It really is, because clarity.
42:03Having the moments of clarity,
42:05it begets creativity and ingenuity.
42:10So not too long ago though.
42:13Bob knows Bob rorbach.
42:15I was so excited, right?
42:18I was exactly where you all were.
42:20Although your digs are much better,
42:22my graduation wasn't as nice as you all,
42:24but it's OK.
42:26I was graduating from Yale
42:30Psychiatry Residency class of 2015.
42:32Shout out to the chief resident.
42:35I had my chief residence certificate.
42:37I was really feeling myself.
42:39I was so nervous yet excited to
42:42begin my career as an attending.
42:45I can tell you y'all,
42:46seven years flew by so fast
42:49I cannot believe here.
42:51We are seven years later and I
42:54look back because I've had those.
42:56Home is to protect my peace because
42:58I've had those times of introspection.
43:01I've had the time to look back
43:03and have an intense amount of
43:05gratitude for the flexibility
43:07that my training at Yale allow.
43:10Three months.
43:13To really develop any scientific
43:15question that I was interested in,
43:19the opportunity to build on and
43:21develop one of the most progressive
43:24curriculums for psychiatry in the nation.
43:28I will always be grateful to
43:31doctor Diaz for allowing me as a
43:35resident to have such autonomy
43:38and input to the curriculum,
43:41which later went on to become.
43:43Social justice and HealthEquity The
43:47chance to work with such amazing people.
43:50The mayor of New Haven,
43:52Kim Guy Richard Ewings Sharelle Bellamy,
43:57awesome researcher.
43:58Hopefully soon to be full professor
44:01at yell to build relationships in a
44:05research program that centers black people.
44:09People of Latinx descent and form
44:11relationships and working collaborations
44:13with people who use drugs and
44:15have problems related to their.
44:17Drug use we are actually making changes,
44:22hopefully figuring out how to
44:24reconceptualize how treatment is
44:26provided because of the opportunities
44:29that were given to me at Yale.
44:31So I say to you all graduates,
44:34you all are destined for greatness,
44:37not because it's just a nice thing to do,
44:39say, but because I'm a living example of it,
44:42and I know that you guys have all of the
44:45tools within you and have been prepared.
44:48Higher education to do just that.
44:51I am literally speaking
44:52into existence on this day.
44:55The Jordan Wellness Collaborative Center
44:57of Racial Justice Research and Mental
45:01Health that's going to be the next,
45:04I think.
45:05Accomplishment for me,
45:07but I'm really,
45:08really so excited to enter this new
45:11chapter as an in doubt Professor,
45:13it means so much to me.
45:15And it's not just for my own accolades,
45:18but really,
45:19for an example of what can be
45:22an example to so many.
45:24How many emails I get from young
45:27people that say Doctor Joanna?
45:28I wanna be you.
45:30I'm thinking about psychiatry.
45:31I didn't even know this was possible.
45:33Can I do a research internship in your lab?
45:36Can I do all of these things?
45:39So psychiatry.
45:41Graduating class of 2022.
45:44You can leave this world a better
45:47place than you found it.
45:49You must protect your peace.
45:51You have all of the privilege.
45:54In order to do so.
45:55So one of the things that I'd like to
45:58do and we have some time is share one
46:01of the songs from sounds of blackness.
46:06It's called keep your head to the sky.
46:08I'm going to just play it.
46:11Probably from my computer.
46:12But I'm going to read the first
46:15stanza and then I'll play the chorus.
46:17It says when, in the midst of sorrow,
46:20you can't see up when
46:22looking down a brighter day.
46:25Tomorrow will bring.
46:26You hear the voice of reason telling
46:30you this can't never be done,
46:32no matter how hard reality seems.
46:35Just hold on to your dreams.
46:38Don't give up and don't give in.
46:41Although it seems you never win,
46:44you will always pass the test as long
46:48as you keep your head to the sky,
46:51you can win as long as you keep
46:54your head to the sky you can win.
46:57As long as you keep your head to the sky,
47:01face towards the sky, be optimistic.
47:05So let me see if I can.
47:07Of course this is not going to work,
47:09but that's OK,
47:10we'll just do it like I did before.
47:13And share this.
47:14I've spent so much time in betting my audios,
47:17but you know, such as life, Anita's,
47:21millennial to help me next time, OK?
47:54You can win, yes, as long as
47:57you keep your head to the sky.
48:00Be optimistic you can win alright y'all.
48:04I'm nearing towards the end, I promise,
48:06but there's a couple of things that I
48:10want to share and this was a quote from.
48:13Tracy case meth,
48:14who was an American poet and educator.
48:16She served as the 22nd Poet laureate of
48:20the United States from 2017 to 2019,
48:23and she says you all have the power
48:26to move the field and a new way.
48:29I am inviting you to consider that
48:31there are tools in terms beyond those
48:34typically indexed to the work we do,
48:36which are nevertheless also essential to
48:39the project of collective human flourishing.
48:42I'm thinking beyond health care,
48:45education, public policy and more
48:49beyond the essential fields and
48:51disciplines which help us measure,
48:53hold, accountable and sustain
48:55our social institutions.
48:57I'm thinking about what else
49:00bolsters our health, dignity,
49:01access and sets the terms of
49:04our civic care and regard.
49:06What does it mean to flourish
49:08in a time of uncertainty?
49:10Uncertainty might flourishing.
49:11Need the result of living together in such
49:15a way that love rather than tolerance,
49:18community rather than division or
49:21tribalism and reciprocity rather
49:23than transactional exchange,
49:26comprise the things we seek to
49:29offer and receive. Let me tell you.
49:33Graduating class of 2022 you all indeed
49:36have the power to move the field in
49:40a new way to protect your peace.
49:43We need you. What can I do without you?
49:47First of all,
49:48I have to give a very special shout
49:51out to each and every one of you.
49:53All you all did it.
49:55You deserve all of the praise.
49:58I am so incredibly proud of you
50:00for all that you've learned,
50:02all that you've achieved and all
50:04the ways that you have grown,
50:06you've learned how to care for
50:08the wounded and afflicted.
50:10How determined how to determine
50:11why someone is suffering.
50:13And what can be done to improve
50:15their quality of life?
50:16You've learned how to navigate
50:18unjust systems and fight for equity,
50:20how to center truth and dismiss hate,
50:23how to expand the notion of doctoring
50:26and leverage your positions of
50:28privilege for lasting change.
50:30You've used complex methodologies,
50:33technologies,
50:34and sophisticated statistics to
50:36do remarkable research,
50:38and you've begun to learn how to navigate
50:41the tricky and at times treacherous.
50:43Waters of science and academia.
50:46You've done all this and more
50:49through such such difficult times,
50:52so all of this to say that I want
50:55you to go out with your head tall.
50:57Walk tall and achieve and do great things.
51:01Make important discoveries.
51:03You are literally the future
51:05of the field I depend on you.
51:08Your patience depend on you.
51:10We depend on you to protect your peace.
51:13And to access wisdom.
51:15What in and access the necessary
51:18discernment to push our field ahead and
51:21ways that we could never imagine ourselves?
51:25My charge to you is to please put great
51:29thought and care into your own self.
51:32Self preservation is indeed
51:33an act of political warfare.
51:36Put as much thought into yourself as
51:37you do in making important advancements,
51:40designing studies and taking care of
51:43patients during these times of uncertainty.
51:45Violence. Injustice and intense sorrow,
51:49you must find a way to protect your peace,
51:52both mentally, spiritually,
51:55psychologically, physically.
51:57And comprehensively find a way
52:00to access Joy's class of 2022.
52:04You all are my inspiration.
52:07I was looking for ways to inspire
52:10you but yet you inspire me.
52:13Today is about you celebrating
52:16all the sacrifices you've made.
52:18Today is about your support system,
52:21your community, whatever.
52:22And whoever that means to you,
52:25everyone that has helped you along the way.
52:27So I say Congrats to you.
52:29Congrats to the parents.
52:33Mom's dad's children, aunties,
52:35uncles, grandparents,
52:36Nana's elders and ancestors
52:38that are with us today.
52:41Today is indeed a day of celebration,
52:45and while we are facing some really,
52:48really tough times,
52:50we celebrate and we honor you.
52:53This is a huge accomplishment.
52:55Congratulations everybody.
52:56Take yourself off you and give
52:59them a round of applause when
53:02they graduating class but 2022.
53:04I approve,
53:05but at the name and have the last song.
53:11I'm gonna stop sharing.
53:12Ohh we can just listen to it.
53:17Yes, celebrate this sign.
53:24This is a good one.
53:34Come on.
53:41Times come on.
53:46Alright. Alright guys I am done UMI,
53:52just want to have some acknowledgements.
53:54I promise I'm done.
53:55I didn't even know I was going to
53:57take all the time but you know I
53:59take a lot of time but I do have to
54:01thank all of my colleagues and NYU
54:04all of my ongoing collaborators.
54:08Yeah, I you know. I always think,
54:11Kathy my mentor is watching
54:13over me and so proud. I.
54:18You know? Yeah yeah,
54:19I just I found out some great news.
54:22I got a really awesome score on a grant.
54:27Shout out to Nida because I
54:29think it's going to get funded,
54:31but I was just like what an
54:33amazing journey we have come.
54:35So thank you for allowing us to be here.
54:37Thank you for allowing me to share space.
54:39I am sincerely thankful to the
54:41people that helped me get the
54:43audio clips and put them in.
54:45And the last thing I'll say is stay in touch.
54:48You all are my family congratulations
54:50and that is the best way to find me is
54:53on Twitter because I'm always there.
54:55I'll stop that and I am done.
54:57Are you finished? Are you done?
54:59I'm done, this was lovely congratulations.
55:02Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
55:04Yes. Be well, take care.