Students Grow as Leaders and Changemakers at Alce su Voz
By Rachel Showstack Many of our readers may have seen the news that Wichita State’s president Rick Muma just published his new book Student Centered, … Read more
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Alce su Voz’s Impacts Ripple Through Communities and Institutions
By Rachel Showstack, Marycarmen Cervantes, and Rommy Vargas-Bezubbikoff Alce su Voz’s mission, vision, and programs have all emerged over the past five years from community … Read more
Health Literacy and the Menopause Transition in Multilingual Communities: The Start of an Important Conversation for Women’s Health
By Rachel Showstack Earlier this year, a few weeks after my 47th birthday, somebody who I love very much woke me up in the middle … Read more
Alce su Voz Loses Two Federal Grants
By Rachel Showstack and Savannah Paschal Like many US programs that depend on federal funding, Alce su Voz is currently facing a loss of resources … Read more
Alce su Voz Offers Recommendations for Improved Healthcare Language Services in Kansas
By Rachel Showstack Imagine that you recently moved to a country where almost everyone else speaks a language that you do not know well. You … Read more
Three Things a Healthcare Administrator Should Know About Language Access
By Rachel Showstack, Paul Spacek & Sarah Hoy Healthcare administrators often find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to providing … Read more
Alce su Voz from 2020 to Today
By Rachel Showstack Four years ago, the grant-funded activities for a Latine community health project I was leading in Wichita were coming to an end, … Read more
Four Things a Bilingual Clinician Should Know
By Pilar Ortega and Rachel Showstack You’re a nurse working at a hospital in the US, and you speak both English and Spanish because you … Read more
Three things you need to know when you go to the doctor
By Francisco (‘Paco’) Martínez and Rachel Showstack If you are a patient who needs to receive care in your own language when you go to…
Three Things a Clinician Should Know About Working with an Interpreter
By Francisco “Paco” Martínez and Rachel Showstack If you are a clinician in the United States who cares for patients whose preferred…