Ethel Walton
Currently, she is the president of the Chicago Chapter of the National Black Nurses Association, and a case manager in the Advocate Hospital Healthcare system. Ethel has served in the Chicago metro area as a nurse for over three decades in a number of capacities, from med-surg units to psych ward nursing, both on the floor and in leadership positions. Discussion includes encountering racism and the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, traveling to Haiti as a nursing student, defining blackness and the politics of respectability, and the importance of organizations like the National Black Nurses Association for representing nurses’ interests. Interviewer was Karen Flynn.
View interview & transcript here.