{"id":82130,"date":"2025-04-03T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=82130"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:41:26","slug":"diverse-ot-celebrates-another-year-of-successful-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/diverse-ot-celebrates-another-year-of-successful-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse-OT Celebrates Another Year of Successful Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT1-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" class=\"wp-image-82144 alignleft\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/diverse-ot.com\/boston-university\/\">Diverse-OT<\/a> is a graduate student group, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/academics\/departments-programs\/occupational-therapy\/entryotd\/\">Entry-Level OTD<\/a> students and supervised by Clinical Associate Professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/leanne-yinusa-nyahkoon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, ScD, OTR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that provides interprofessional opportunities for discussion and education on issues related to diversity and inclusion at Boston University. During the 2024-25 academic year, Diverse-OT held a number of successful events including:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Overcoming Ableism as an OT Practitioner<\/strong>, co-hosted with Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotad.org\/\">Coalition of Occupational Therapy Advocates for Diversity<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Building Our OT Tool Box<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Common Grounds: Gender Affirming Care<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hallowe\u2019en Fundraiser Bake Sale<\/strong> <strong>to benefit the American Occupational Therapy Foundation<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aotf.org\/\">AOTF<\/a>), co-hosted with the Sargent College Occupational Therapy Association<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT2-636x477.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"306\" class=\"wp-image-82143 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT2-636x477.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2025\/04\/diverseOT2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/>Looking ahead to the 2025-26 academic year, the Diverse-OT group is excited to host more events with the aim of continuing to support diversity and inclusion at Boston University and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diverse-OT is a graduate student group, led by Entry-Level OTD students and supervised by Clinical Associate Professor Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, ScD, OTR, that provides interprofessional opportunities for discussion and education on issues related to diversity and inclusion at Boston University. During the 2024-25 academic year, Diverse-OT held a number of successful events including:\u00a0 Overcoming Ableism as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17266,"featured_media":82143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5147,5143],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82130"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82158,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82130\/revisions\/82158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}