Megan
Leys,
MSW Candidate
University of Michigan
Megan Leys is a Masters of Social Work candidate with a practice method in Community Change and is part of the National Community Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. Megan currently serves as an MSW Intern at the DEI office at the School of Social Work. Megan is passionate about community capacity building, anti-racism research and education, and dedicated to working collaboratively with communities to create a more equitable society.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In the summer of 2020, the University of Michigan’s Health Science Council of Deans (HSC) and Center for Interprofessional Education (C-IPE) were united by a desire to collectively address health inequities in society. The HSC charged the C-IPE to bring together dean-appointed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) leads from 9 of our 10 health science schools, as well as students, patients, and DEI experts to lead the first stage of this effort. The goal was to gain an understanding of the current state of anti-racism and IPE intersections, individual school/college efforts on DEI and anti-…