Diversity Week 2021 Book Club: Medical Bondage: Book Club

Wing Kay Fok, MD, MS, FACOG

Dr. Wing Kay Fok is an obstetrician/gynecologist and subspecialist of Complex Family Planning. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Director of Family Planning at Weill Cornell New York Presbyterian. She serves as the ob/gyn department liaison to the Weill Cornell Diversity Council and is also a member of the 2020 Faculty Scholars in Health Equity.

Margaret Washington, PhD, MA

Margaret Washington is professor of history at Cornell University. Her publications include the award winning, “A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community Culture among the Gullahs; an edited and annotated publication of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, and a biography entitled, Sojourner Truth’s America, which won the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, the inaugural Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians and was voted one of the year's ten outstanding academic books by Choice Magazine. She has been advisor and historical consultant for numerous documentary films, including “Africans in America,” “Unchained Memories: The Narratives of Former Slaves;” “This Far by Faith: A History of the Black Church;” “Wade in the Water: the Musical Legacy of Gullah Culture;” and “Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.” Washington was featured the CNN series, “Race for the White House," and recently in “Tell Them We are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” She is currently writing a book entitled, “‘Thine for the Oppressed’: Black and White Women Activists in the Age of Emancipation.”