Meet Dr. Phyllis West; a fierce, compassionate, lover of humanity, a power-house, a trail blazer, and a beautiful force of nature. She is a professor of Social Work and Public Health at Governors State University in Chicago Illinois. She was also a Peace Core volunteer in the Sierra Leone Liberia region of West Africa during the war. In this episode she gives us a glimpse of what it was like growing up on the west side of Chicago in the neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King lived before he was killed. She shares how she became the first in her family to graduate college, and how it only takes one person to positively change your life. She recounts how she found a way out of poverty and is educating and training community leaders to do the same. Recently she made a trip to Ghana and reveals to us her life changing experience there. In this heart healing conversation, Dr. West invites us to really see each other amidst disparity and difference. She lets us learn from her life example to embrace and accept our most authentic selves.
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