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(soft music)

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- It's hard to talk about
race in Minnesota in general,

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because I think we feel
like we can and we should

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treat everyone the same way.

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And I think that is
rooted in a healthy way,

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but if we treat
everyone the same way,

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we assume everyone's the same.

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Being Vietnamese-American,
being a refugee,

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when I started doing
work in medicine,

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I gravitated to
particularly those who

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are immigrants and refugees.

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As the population changed,
and as the needs changed,

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I changed with the population.

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And so then my equity work
had been more around those

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who were dealing with
opioid use disorder.

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We have a lot of
individuals come here

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that happen to be Indigenous,

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and I was not doing a
great service at first,

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because I didn't understand
what their life was like

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outside of clinic, so I
knew I had to take time

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and practice to ask questions,

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to learn more about just
individuals and community,

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beyond just addiction.

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And I learned the good
stuff, the bad stuff,

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and the everything in between.

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And then also working with
a researching assistant,

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Koushik Paul, over
the last three years,

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he and I started
doing interviews

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with the Native
American community

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to understand how we
can better serve them

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around opioid use
disorder, particularly

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in primary care clinics,

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and make it more
culturally-centered,

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or family-centered.

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And all these connections
that we built over time

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in this shared space has
given me a place of joy

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where I am working
with communities

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that deserve help, should
be elevated and celebrated,

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but they have been also
people who are so accepting,

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and allow me to learn
and make mistakes

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along the way, too.