When Safeyyah Raji looks out at her nursing class at Western University, she sees possibility — but also responsibility.Raji remembers what it felt like to move through nursing education without feeling like she belonged there, though she is now a lecturer at Western’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and Ontario regional lead for the Canadian Black Nurses Alliance.
“I don’t want black nursing students to ever experience what I experienced during my own education and what I currently experience in the workforce,” she said. “[I ask myself] how can I best set them up for success.”