The Movement

Hey there! My name is Jillian Calero, I’m an OBGYN physician assistant in NYC and I love to run. It actually wasn’t until 1972 that women were allowed to run a marathon, because race coordinators believed it was unsafe for people who had a uterus- so now I’m exercising my ability to run long distances to run to DC....

I’m Joe Blanchet, a content creator and hybrid athlete using running as a form of resistance. My work challenges mainstream ideas of fitness and masculinity while exposing how politics, power, and privilege shape who gets access to health and movement. I also work full time in the fitness wearables tech industry....

Hi! I’m Mary Grace Nimmer, a student in health policy and a firm believer that healthcare is a human right. My work focuses on how policy shapes people’s ability to live healthy, dignified, and free lives....

Hello, My name is Dante Hatem, and I reside in Buffalo, New York. I am employed as a pediatric critical care nurse at the Children’s Hospital, where I provide care in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and emergency department (ED)....

>I’m Kenny Moll and I’m a marathon runner, student and environmental activist. At five months old I was diagnosed with Wilms tumor; a form of cancer that led to the removal of my left kidney. This type of cancer is linked to prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants, such as the harmful chemicals released in the burning of coal, gas and oil or those often found in pesticides and insecticides. Not only was I lucky enough to survive cancer, but my family was able to financially endure the overwhelming cost of treatment. Many families do not have that privilege as a result of our broken healthcare system and the design of where these environmental pollutants are concentrated. With the acceleration of climate change, due to our addiction to fossil fuels, and the increase of environmental pollutants caused by big oil corporations, cancer is on the rise. ...

> My name is Charlie Moll and I’m a recent graduate of Loyola Marymount University with a degree in sociology, where I focused on power inequality and the consequences of policy in daily life. Living in Los Angeles has made those lessons impossible to ignore. I’ve witnessed firsthand how immigration enforcement and racial profiling shape who gets to feel safe in public spaces. ...

Hi all, I’m Matt Bourland, a runner, writer, and humanist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Growing up in the Midwest, the cycles of outside investment, the greenwashing of industries, and the environmental consequences of industrial manufacturing shaped the world around me. I see climate change, the destruction of land, the forced removal of Native peoples, genocide, surveillance capitalism, and authoritarianism as issues that touch everyone....

> My name’s Jack and I’m an educator based in the northeast. The area I live in is prisonlandia, remote—both physically and psychologically—from urban centers and free society. Much of my teaching is done at a maximum-security facility; the type of place that was designed to break the people who live there. They are warehoused in some of the grimmest conditions the carceral system has to offer. Many of them have been sentenced to “life”—or as we sometimes call it “death by incarceration.” And so, their lives are themselves acts of resistance. ...

> My name is Natalie. I am a Psychotherapist servicing individuals of all backgrounds. I’ve provided services to minors in the correctional justice system and worked with their families after their release. I also work with monolingual Spanish speakers seeking mental health care. Currently, I work with adults with an array of mental health difficulties. However, I place a special focus on individuals that struggle with acculturative stress due to being first or second generation immigrants as well as the generational trauma is inherited through living and existing in a country that historically rejects immigrants. ...