Our Hopes for the Future: Neda Hamzavi, Racism, and Whiteness in Nursing

Posted by in 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife, Student STory

By Colleen Varcoe At this moment in a history of intense racism and racist violence, Neda Hamzavi’s scholarship promises to offer direction for nursing to tackle the Eurocentrism that dominates nursing. Neda, a master’s student in the MSN/MPH program in the School of Nursing felt the impact of that dominance as soon as she entered the school. “It was a visceral reaction. I felt shocked and out of place. As soon as I got off the elevator, I saw the pictures of all the past directors of the School of…read more