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Valerie Rucker-Bussie Joins Rizing Tide as Community Development Officer

Rizing Tide is excited to welcome Valerie Rucker-Bussie, PT, DPT, NCS, as its new Community Development Officer. A seasoned physical…

From Entrepreneur to PT Advocate: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Li Chen

This is the fourth installment of the 2023 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that…

Championing Community and Care: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Emmanuel Noye

This is the third installment of the 2023 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that…

A Physical Therapy Student’s Advice to Incoming Students

As I enter the final year of my physical therapy program, I reflect on how swiftly the journey passed—and how…

Inspired by Experience, Driven by Purpose: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Faith Blanchard-Ludanga

This is the second installment of the 2023 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that…

Inspired by Family, Driven to Dream: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Darwin Sandoval

This is the first installment of the 2023 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that…

How to Prepare for Physical Therapy School

Journeying toward a doctor of physical therapy (DPT) degree is an incredibly rewarding pursuit. DPTs change their patients’ lives each…

Building a Healthcare Career You Love

“37% of clinicians are considering leaving their role in the next 2–3 years.” Clinicians enter the workforce to help people—but…

6 Equitable Hiring Practices to Help You Diversify Your DPT Clinic

Let us put on our fortune-teller hat and make some guesses about who you are. You are a hiring manager,…

Rizing Tide’s Third Anniversary: A Celebration of Empowerment, Progress, and Community

As we commemorate the third anniversary of the Rizing Tide Foundation, the team has just one thing to say: What…

Yuri Kochiyama

“Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society than we have seen.”

Yuri Kochiyama