Bledsoe, Vaughn-Regan

• An interview with Vaughn-Regan Bledsoe conducted via Zoom by Ethan Dominic on November 27, 2023. Vaughn-Regan Bledsoe is a co-president of Duke University’s Black Women’s Union1 and an Abele Ambassador at The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture2. She has been greatly dedicated to her work in these spaces since she became a freshman at Duke University in 2021. Vaughn is a Global Health & African and African American Studies co-major and has an interest in health policy and its impact on the Black3 community. More specifically, she is interested in Black women’s health and how Black women are viewed and treated in the contexts of the healthcare system in America. Vaughn has learned throughout her personal experiences that “biases have been created against black women in healthcare.” Overall, she has a passion for community building, and all of her work in her personal life and on campus is motivated by her Blackness4 and the Black community. ... [Read More]

Creator

• Dominic, Ethan
• Bledsoe, Vaughn-Regan

Subject

• Reproductive justice
• Duke University
• Black Women’s Union
• Black Women’s Health
• Abortion
• Mary Lou Williams Center
• Bass Connections
• Black Student Association

Publication Date

• July 12, 2024

ARK

• ark:/87924/r4p27355h

Publisher

• Duke Research Data Repository

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Title

• Bledsoe, Vaughn-Regan

License

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Repository

• Duke Research Data Repository

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