Meet Wellspring’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Roundtable

The D&I Roundtable is comprised of individuals who are committed to creating a Wellspring where everyone belongs. These are dedicated individuals who have: lived cancer experience; knowledge or experience with marginalization and racism; and/or, have encountered barriers to accessing community-based supportive care or the health care system.

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Frank Pickard: finding the missing piece at Wellspring

Frank Pickard is grateful to be alive, relatively stable, and doing as well as possible, in year four of what is commonly viewed as a five-year cancer monitoring window. He is especially cognizant of his all-around good fortune, given the prognosis of a 35 percent chance of recovering from two cancers found within three months of each other in 2019.

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Sanam Zomorodi: cancer at 27

Sanam Zomorodi answered the call when Wellspring Alberta sought volunteers for its Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Roundtable. With firsthand experience as a cancer survivor, she recognizes the significance of accessing community-based supportive care while confined to a hospital.

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Munira Jiwa: connect to calm with Qigong

Munira Jiwa discovered qigong when she was at a low point in her life, suffering with a number of ailments including fatigue, chronic pain and depression. After a couple of months of practicing the gentle formula of meditation and movement, her pain completely disappeared. This life-altering change was so dramatic, that Munira she ended her career in physical therapy and made qigong her life’s work.

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Julie Barker: life on the edge

Julie has travelled a tumultuous path, but she doesn’t present her story this way … she narrates it as a wildly adventurous ride; a bit of a ‘living on the edge,’ meets ‘diving inward to find answers’ kind of story.

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Cidalia Campos: gratitude galore

Cidalia Campos has come a long way from Mozambique to volunteering at the Wellspring front desk! She is a dedicated gratitude tracker, wholeheartedly tallying the goodness in her life in a journal she tends to daily. Wellspring, she says, is high on her list.

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