Natania Abebe is a nurse and filmmaker who is a living a life of craftivism, where art/craft intersects with activism = craftivism. Natania is a using art, filmmaking, and writing to express her experience as a new nurse, a woman of color and young professional entering a working world mired in sexism, racism and antiquated views of what it means to be a nurse in the 21st Century.
Her most recent creation is a short film about a woman’s relationship with her brain and how this affects her mental health.
According to Natania, This video is meant to have a more “playful/humorous side” in addressing mental health issues.
Here is a link to Natania’s first guest blog that was published in 2019:
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Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN is a Nationally Certified School Nurse, in her 24th year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the New Jersey Director for the National Association of School Nurses. She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past program mentor. Robin has been honored by multiple awards for her work in school nursing and population health. She serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing. Robin writes The Relentless School Nurse, a popular blog. Her extensive work in school nursing was included as a case study in the National Academies of Medicine Future of Nursing 2030 report. You can follow Robin on Twitter at @RobinCogan.
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