Equity as a Health Strategy in Support of Education – with Dawnnesha Lasuncet

In this episode, host Dr. I. David Daniels will speak with Dawnnesha Lasuncet, the Equity and Inclusion Coordinator for an agency that supports school districts. It’s hard to argue that much is more important than education to the development and, ultimately, the well-being of a community. However, according to a June 2022 Gallup poll, K-12 teachers have the highest burnout rate of all U.S. professions. Hired only weeks before her agency shut down at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Lasuncet has been at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the work culture of her agency and the districts it supports is psychologically health and safe for not only staff but faculty, students and their parents as they face the challenges associated with K through 12 public education. Ms. Lasuncet will discuss the progress that has been made, especially over the past year, as a result of a focused effort to break down some of the traditional siloed thinking and getting leadership, safety, mental health, and the focus on equity into coordinated strategies focused on the betterment of the agency and those they serve.