Diversity Equity and Inclusion

The Death of DEI in Healthcare: What it Means for Physical Therapy

Over the past four months, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have faced a rapid decline across many different industries, including…

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,…

Telehealth For Me, But Not for Thee: Examining the Biases in Virtual Care

Telehealth has the potential to expand healthcare access to millions of patients. When used, it supplements health professional shortage areas—it…

Time to Reimagine The American Dream

I opened the building door, ran up the stairs, and stopped by the door to the apartment. It had been…

Investigating LGBTQ+ Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy

No two patients are exactly alike. In a clinical sense, two patients recovering from the same condition won’t progress in…

Diversifying the PT Hiring Pool Through HBCUs

Many people who work in or alongside the physical therapy industry are invested in diversifying the PT profession. National PT…

Identifying and Dismantling Performative Allyship

Good intentions are easy to have. Most people have a lot of them—and you likely do, too. You may intend…

What the Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson Means for U.S. Diversity Efforts

This month, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as she became the first Black woman to secure a position on…

One More Hurdle: How Students Face Unequal Barriers to the PT Profession

In an official 100-meter hurdle race, everything is perfectly fair. Every racer jumps over exactly 10 hurdles that are adjusted…

How to Build a Desire for Diversity in Your PT Clinic

Broken routines stink. There’s a special kind of frustration that accompanies an interrupted schedule—whether it’s because you unexpectedly had to…

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