Sheridan Nygaard
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181 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard Apr 2025
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She was very delirious at this point. Her lungs were failing. Her cardiovascular system was failing. It was devastating. I could not go and give her a hug to say goodbye. I was the only family member that ever said anything to her. She ended up dying later that night in a room with... This is such a small world.
One of my good friends that I graduated high school with, her grandma was the other person in the room. They died together, holding hands, talking about their grandchildren. And I'm getting choked up right now, but she was a week away from getting vaccinated. And I do believe that if she had been vaccinated, things maybe would have gone differently. So...
I, as her grandchild, as a public health professional, I think it is my duty to get vaccinated for any communicable illness, anything that can keep myself safe, my community safe. And it's really an act of love and it's an act of service. And I just wish that more people saw it as that. And I understand that we live in an individualistic society.
It's hard to think about the community when you're thinking about your own pain and suffering, getting a shot. But I just think about other folks that lost more than just their grandma, that lost their moms, their kids. There was so much loss.
And if I can do one thing to prevent that from happening in my community, I'll get the shot and I'll get the shot again and I'll get it again and I'll get it again and I'll continue to do it. So that's just my little personal story.
Yeah, just going back to talking about getting introduced to this topic earlier on. I was born and raised in Minnesota. I went through the public school system here. My first introduction to Indigenous struggles, Indigenous people in general, was in sixth grade in a Minnesota history class. I will, I hate to say this, I will say it was pretty whitewashed.
It was very watered down from what I have sensed unpacked and learned from the community. And I would just like to share a few things that got me involved in the community a little bit more in case this would help other people. Indigenous Peoples Day is coming up October 14th, 2024. Great time to check in with the community.
Great time to check in with the people around you about what they know, what they don't know. where they can get connected with resources and people more. So great day to just start exploring and unpacking. I, last year, found a great reading list of, I think it was like 15 different books that I, I mean, I ended up reading seven of them and every single one of them was great.
So you'll find a lot of resources that day. You'll find a lot of things being shared around, you know, on Instagram stories, Facebook, Instagram, dig into it, click in, read, do your own research, like really engage with some of these sources, resources that people are putting out there because it takes a lot of effort to put this stuff out there. Give it a, give it a listen, give it a read.
And I think this podcast will obviously be sharing on indigenous people's day as well. Um, And then also for me, locally, I live in downtown Minneapolis. I live very close to Awamni, which is a restaurant by The Sous Chef. I have to shamelessly plug that place. It is so good. It is really some of the best food I've had in Minnesota ever.
Truly deserves all the accolades, has one of the most beautiful views of the Mississippi. I and my vegan brother and fiance absolutely adored it too. It is truly an amazing restaurant. If you want to try also the Indigenous Food Lab in the Midtown Global Market.
these are other they have great resources in there they have indigenous cookbooks they have things that you can buy from indigenous communities straight from the communities like it is truly a great way just start talking to those folks too I don't know I just think that go out there get in the community and just give it a try and just don't be afraid to also like make a mistake and say I'm sorry I love that I love that thanks for sharing Clarence
Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot to reflect on. I think one thing I was thinking about in terms of where we've been, I think it's been, what, like a little over two years now from the beginning. I personally, you know, I think I started, I joined my second year of grad school, and I don't think, in full transparency, I don't think I thought about I would stay beyond graduation.
I thought maybe it would just be like a nice experience to have while I was in school. And I can't seem to let go. Not that I've been trying to let go, but it's just like I it's just been a really meaningful and impactful and exciting part of my life as I've graduated from grad school and and, you know, gotten into a full time job. So, you know, on the one hand, it's it's
it's exciting to have kind of like a finger on the pulse of things that are going on in the public health world with all of our, um, incredible guests that we bring on and that we get to talk to. Um, but also I really love kind of what Sheridan was saying. I love the team. This is a great group of people.
Everyone has really diverse backgrounds and experiences and it's, it's nice to come together and to, and to kind of bring all of that, um,
together um and to apply those different lenses and perspectives to different topics so um yeah it's just it's just a it's a it's a feel-good thing um and in terms of where we're going I think just kind of to echo what Sheridan said and what Matthew had said earlier about you know one of the cool things about public health, for better or for worse, I guess, is that
Episodes that we did in the early days, you know, a year or a year and a half ago, we could talk about again and things would be totally different. So before we started recording, we were talking about we did an early episode about homelessness like over a year ago or maybe a year ago.
And if we had if we bring on a new guest or the same guest and we talk about it now in 2024, I'm sure there'd be a lot, you know, there'd be. different things to say. So in that way, I think the fact that public health is like iterative is really exciting for us to kind of dive into and unpack.
And yeah, I think there's just, you know, there's an endless amount of topics that we can experiment with. And I think the fact that this crew is so open to kind of leaning into that and open minded to talking about and learning about and leaning into different areas of public health and kind of stretching all of our understandings is a super cool opportunity to be a part of.
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