BERNADETTE LIM

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UNITED STATES, 26

Project: The Freedom Community Clinic
Focus Area: Holistic Justice for BIPOC Communities

Bernadette is a community activist, healer and daughter of Filipinx and Toisanese immigrants. She is the founder and a core organizer of the Freedom Community Clinic – a grassroots initiative providing free whole-person healing services by combining the strengths of Western medicine and ancestral/holistic healing. They have provided services to 1,500+ people in the Bay Area and beyond, with a particular focus on Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities. Bernadette is also the co-founder of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine, the creator and host of the Woke WOC Docs podcast, and the founder of the Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice.

By day, Bernadette is a medical student at UCSF School of Medicine. She recently earned her Master’s at UC Berkeley School of Public Health through the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. She graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with cum laude honors, and went on to be a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India. Bernadette is also a Reiki practitioner and meditation/hatha yoga teacher.

Bernadette will continue to expand whole-person healing for under-resourced communities through holistic healing and primary care. She envisions and works towards a world where each person is affirmed, loved and cared for.

More: www.freedomcommunityclinic.org
Instagram: @freedomcommunityclinic

“We are all women of color, and we bring our strengths together to provide whole person healing directly to spaces and places whole communities gather.”