Taking Care
March 19, 2021
UW Tacoma alumna Joy Chang served as a medic in the army, an emergency room nurse at Tacoma General and now works as a nurse practitioner in a private practice.
Editor’s Note
We had long planned to run Joy’s story this week. The tragic events in Atlanta gave us pause. We reached out to Joy to see if she wanted us to post her story at a later date. Joy’s reply is powerful. We checked back with her to see if we could share her words with you. Joy embraced the idea. Here, then, is her response.
“Thank you for checking in. I appreciate you for thinking of us but, if anything, at this point in time I’d be more inclined to want to publish my story.
“Asian fear and hate and racism is on the rise and I will not take it sitting down.”
Written by Eric Wilson-Edge
Photos courtesy Joy Chang
Photo illustration by Megan Kitagawa