Black, Brown, & LatinX Health & Wellness: Is It Really All That Different?

In alignment with Black History Month's national theme of "Black Health and Wellness," the Office of Multicultural Affairs invites the campus community to hear an intergenerational dialogue from healthcare professionals Dr. Lorinda Sealy and Thyra Buchanan and their experiences as being both Black and of Latin American decent. The talk will be hosted both virtually and in the Capital Chambers Room 329 of the student union on Thursday, February 24 from 5:00-6:00PM. To register please click here.

Thyra Buchanan, MS, FNP, RNC

Thyra Buchanan was born in Panama to 2nd generation-born Afro Caribbean parents. She migrated to Baton Rouge 30 years ago, studied at LSU, and was active in her sorority - Delta Sigma Theta, Iota Theta chapter. Following her LSU graduation, she earned a second BS in nursing at Pace University and a MS in nursing from Walden University. Ms. Buchanan is currently a National Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with extensive clinical experience in high-risk maternity nursing in Labor and Delivery, outpatient women’s health settings as well as an Emergency OB unit. She has been actively involved in developing policies to decrease maternal mortality among African American women. Ms. Buchanan is bilingual (Spanish and English), values cultural competence and takes pride in working successfully with patient populations and colleagues of diverse cultural backgrounds in New York, Atlanta, and California.

Lorinda J. Sealey, RN, PhD

A native of Panama, Central America and born to first-generation Panamanian parents of Afro Caribbean descent, Dr. Sealey has been in the US for over 50 years; she became a US citizen in 1986 and has been a resident of Baton Rouge for 35 years. Dr. Sealey is a retired nurse with clinical experience in medical surgical, community, and maternal newborn nursing.  For the last 28 years of her nursing career, she was a nurse educator with a research focus on cultural competence in nursing, and she led students in study abroad programs to Honduras and Vancouver, Canada. At the time of her retirement, Dr. Sealey was Graduate Nursing Coordinator at Southeastern Louisiana University. Since retiring she has continued to be an active member of the Baton Rouge Nurses Association and is a leader in community outreach through her church as well the Together Baton Rouge organization.