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Loy Campbell's professional work in healthcare and community work for racial justice are inspirational examples of how we can show up as changemakers in all facets of our lives.  Read on to check out what you missed “On Your Own Terms” or, if you prefer, go straight to the audio version here:    



































Homegrown LoyLoy Campbell was born in Blacksburg, Virginia. Blacksburg is a college town where the university is a big part of community life. She credits her desire to do something bigger than herself to her upbringing in a tight-knit community where there were lots of events and activities close by. Loy’s parents, Nurse Practitioner Anne Campbell and Attorney Greg Campbell, modeled both professionalism and a commitment to community all her life.


















Blacksburg is a community that really values learning.




















Living close to two sets of grandparents influenced her greatly and contributed to her desire to work with the elderly in her adult life. 

















Solution-Focused Loy
As Loy grew older, she became more aware of the many challenges facing us all. Having grown up in a fairly homogenous community, Loy realized that she needed to take action and stand up with those who were not fairly represented. Today, she focuses on two main issues: working with older adults, especially those with dementia, and promoting racial justice.












So I've worked with a group called the Equal Justice Initiative. One of the things that they're doing besides working with people who are unjustly incarcerated is that they're helping community groups called Community Remembrance Coalitions.
































Through the Community Remembrance Coalitions, Loy works to educate the community in Alamance County, North Carolina about the history of racial terror and lynching in the area. 

















Loy's PatchworkLoy says her awareness of racial injustice started to grow when a friend invited her to a group that was reading the book, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.  
























It's a book about three different people who are leaving the south during the Great Migration, where many black people left the south from about the twenties to the sixties to escape Jim Crow terror.












Reading the book had a profound impact on Loy, as it helped her connect to the problem of racial injustice. She realized that she, like many white Americans, has benefitted at the expense of others. She, therefore, feels a responsibility to be part of the solution. Getting away from Blacksburg to work for a time in California and now in North Carolina has given her more opportunities to engage with diverse groups of people as both coworkers and clients.  Loy credits this exposure for enriching her life and her perspectives so she can now help others of us to understand how racial injustice and issues around disability affect everyone.  When people outside those communities get involved, it makes us all function better and more inclusively as a nation.

















Changemaker LoyLoy has seen firsthand how the healthcare system advantages people of privilege. Working in a hospital as an occupational therapist allows her to see the range of need across diverse backgrounds, races, ethnicities and languages as well as those experiencing life challenges such as addiction, homelessness and paralysis.  






























EVERYONE goes to the hospital!











Before she worked at a hospital, Loy had not met people without insurance or a roof over their heads. She hadn’t met undocumented immigrants. New exposure to humans struggling to get by broadened her perspective and connected her deeply with the side of her that was raised to help and try to make a difference where she is able. 
























“It's made my life a lot richer by seeing a diversity of people in all the ways that people can be diverse because hospitals just bring that out.”












Loy hopes that through her work she can help others see that people with dementia are still human beings who deserve care and respect. People need to be accepted for who they are rather than what people wish them to be. In her practice as an occupational therapist and dementia care specialist, she helps families and caregivers learn to work more effectively with their loved ones. Recently, Loy has expanded her work to include advocacy and training for communities to become more involved with dementia care as a community effort that includes support for primary caregivers and affordable day centers.  You can learn more and gain access to Loy's programs through her private consulting business, Campbell Care Consultants.  Reach out here: https://www.campbellcareconsultants.com/.



































Loy's efforts with dementia care and racial justice are easily connected to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals including Goal #3 – Good Health and Well-Being and Goal #10 – Reduced Inequalities. The long term impact leads other advancements as well.  Goal #9 – Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal #11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities and Goal #16 – Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions can all be impacted when people are cared for and treated fairly. I hope you'll get in touch to let us know what YOU and people you know are doing to realize these Global Goals by the year 2030.  We can get there if we all work together and take our place as Changemakers! CHECK OUT our CHANGEMAKER YOU course to help you get started today! 

























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