Her Story
About Lindsey
I'm a healthcare communications consultant who has been working in this field for almost 10 years. My journey started right after college with an internship at the Child Advocacy Center, where I focused on their communications from events to volunteering. In my consulting work, I've partnered with organizations like a senior living association, where I advertised their events, actually hosted their events as well, and spread the word across the association about upcoming trainings, conferences, and education-based credits for people who take care of seniors. Most recently, I had a full-time role with NYU Langone focusing on community events and different educational pieces on health equity - that's focusing on how everyone can get healthcare access. The biggest piece was working on newsletters to inform people on what's going on, because a lot of the time, the community's not aware of how hospitals, such as big hospitals like NYU Langone, they might think, oh, I'll just go there to see the doctor, but it's like, wait, there's actually resources to help you on your day-to-day health journey. That's where I was able to bridge the gap. I originally aspired to be a doctor like a lot of people with a background in public health, but chemistry and physics wasn't my thing, so I took my knowledge and love for taking complex ideas and took it to health communications where I can really connect with the community. I got to the root of why did I want to be a doctor - it's because I wanted to educate and share resources, and let people know, yes, you might be going through a health issue, or you might be wondering if you are, what's out there to help you. My goal in life is to bridge that gap, especially for communities that are underserved or overlooked. I like telling their stories and bridging that gap, because also on the professional side, doctors can get really in that cycle of, I'm just here to diagnose, but it's like, wait, you're serving a community. How you help this person is helping the community. Now I'm doing consulting full-time after doing it as a side gig, and my day-to-day looks like meeting with my clients once or twice a week to make sure deliverables have been met, working on event-based pieces to attract people in the community to come, and working with their social media to get people informed about not only a health issue that's happening in the community, but also how they can participate, come to events, or get resources.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Lindsey
01What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Connection and bridging gaps between people is at the core of what I value most. I believe in showing how connected we are and that we have a lot more in common than we think. This became even more clear to me after I lost my father to cancer last year. Recently I was in my favorite coffee shop, and I heard a man a bit older than me who went through a similar situation, and I just took the moment and acknowledged and said, hey, you know, we may look different, we may come from different walks of life, but I went through the same thing. Just imagining how maybe there's a way to connect people like that, that are either it's a family member or going through a health issue, and just breaking down that wall of, we're different. No, but at the base, we're still human, and health is important. I value telling untold stories, especially for communities that are underserved or overlooked, and helping people get resources they didn't even know they needed. I'm still a face-to-face person - there's so much you can do on LinkedIn, but I believe in that personal connection.
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