Events & Media
UPCOMING EVENTS
February 7, 2026
Placitas New Mexico
2:00 PM
Kinship Medicine Disucssion and Reading
Placitas Community Library 453 Highway 165, Placitas NM 87403
February 7, 2026
Virtual
10:00 AM to Noon Central
Hope and Imagination in Environmental Writing
On-line writing workshop by The Loft based in Minneeapolis MN
February 19, 2026
Missoula, Montana
7:00 pm
Kinship Medicine Book Talk in Conversation with Robin McLean
Book talk at Fact & Fiction Bookstore with Robin McLean
Fack & Fiction bookstore, 220 N. Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT 59802
February 28, 2026
Trinidad, Colorado
5:00 pm
Kinship Medicine Book Talk in Conversation with Tracy Wahl
Mutiny Trinidad 135 E. Main Street, Trinidad, CO 81012
March 1, 2026
Denver, Colorado
4:00 pm
Kinship Medicine Book Talk in Conversation with Emily Wortman-Wunder
The Shop at Matter, 2114 Market Street, Denver 80205
March 6, 2026
Taos, NM
6:00 pm
Kinship Medicine Book Talk in Conversation with Mirabai Starr
SOMOS Taos, 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos NM 87571
March 7, 2026
Questa, NM
1:00 pm
Kinship Medicine Reading and Book Talk
Questa Public Library. 6 1/2 Municipal Park Drive, Questa NM
March 14-15, 2026
Tucson Arizona
1:00 pm both days
Tucson Festival of Books Science Panel Discussions with Jonathan Gleason, David Blumenthal and Tom Griffiths
Science Tent, Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona Campus
APRIL 7, 2026
Allegany, NY
4:30 pm
Kinship Medicine Visiting Scholar Lecture St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure University, Allegany NY
PODCASTS AND OTHER MEDIA COVERAGE
January 2026
Climate Change and Happiness podcast
Climate Change and Happiness with hosts Thomas Doherty and Panu Pihkala
Kinship Medicine with Dr. Wendy Johnson
July 18, 2025
Book Bite podcast
Next Big Idea Club, Book Bite daily podcast
Radical Ancient Remedy for the Ills of Modern Existence
July 14, 2025
Atmos interview
Atmos Magazine Feature
The Climate Crisis is Wrecking Our Health. This Doctor Has a Radical Cure. Interview by Daphne Chouliaraki Milner
July 7, 2025
Conversations Different podcast and video
Conversations Different by Inez Russell Gomez
Podcast and videocast of The Santa Fe New Mexican. Johnson shares what guided her in writing the book along with discussing its theme of kinship medicine, a belief that individual wellbeing is determined by our relationships and interconnection.
July 7, 2025
The Nuance podcast
The Nuance by Medicine Explained episode 112
The future is KINSHIP: Community Medicine, Reimagined Healthcare and Reciprocity.
July 5, 2025
Coffee and Culture podcast
Coffee and Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel
Artist and Curator Matthew Chase-Daniel speaks to Dr. Johnson about her new book, Kinship Medicine, and themes of preserving and creating community, the practice of medicine, relationships with other humans, animals, and plants, and visioning a way forward for thriving in health and spirit in our time.
July 1, 2025
Down to Earth with Mary-Charlotte Domandi
Down to Earth is about the place where food production and conservation come together, where the food we eat actually improves the health of land, water, people—and climate. The podcast of the Quivira Coalition.
Last weekend each month
103.7 KTRC and Santafe.com
To Your Health
A one hour monthly radio show with important and timely health information. Airs Saturday at 10 AM and Sundays at 1 PM.
tuesdays (ongoing)
103.7 KTRC Santa Fe www.santafe.com
The Richard Eeds Show
Biweekly radio show and podcast on health topics of the day.
PAST EVENTS
July 15, 2025
Santa Fe
6:00 pm
National Kinship Medicine Book Launch
Community celebration with music and readings. All proceeds from ticket sales and books sold go Amigos Bravos and Tewa Women United. Book sales by Collected Works.
Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, 2791 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe
November 2022
Santa Fe, New Mexico
November 2022 Podcast with Sage
Sage came over to my house in summer of 2022 to discuss The Ecology Cure. Sage writes:
We are in Chupadero, New Mexico sitting on Wendy’s large “portal” (porch) overlooking an orchard and the acequia (canal) that was built in 1876. Wendy and I just met in person for the first time. She is kind and straightforward and accommodating – and her eyes are full of joy. She has a vibrancy and energy about her that permeates the stories of her life adventures from politics to public health and Chile to Mozambique. Join us holobionts to learn about Wendy’s “place” and her adventurous journey toward it.
March 2022
Point Reyes, California
Mesa Refuge Residency
In March 2022 I was selected to for the Mesa Refuge writers residency in idyllic Point Reyes, California. I worked on revisions of Kinship Medicine.
FEBRUARY 2020
Whidbey Island, Washington
Hedgebrook
I was honored to be chosen for the 2020 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence program—one of 40 out of more than 1,200 applicants. I was lucky to be in the first writer’s cohort in February before the pandemic forced the postponement of the season. Being part of the Hedgebrook community of women writers and artists was inspiring for my writing. Find out more about this program by clicking on the button at right.
TEDX SEATTLE TALK
A New Paradigm for Global Health: Solidarity
TEDX WOMEN TALK
Choosing Treatment Instead of Prison Saves Families
For many opioid dependent pregnant women, seeking treatment is accompanied by the threat of imprisonment. Dr. Wendy Johnson describes a unique program in Santa Fe, NM that provides community-based comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum and post-partum care combined with medically assisted drug treatment, social support and behavioral health services for opioid dependent pregnant women. Treatment and compassion–alternatives to punishment and prison–can alter the paths of drug-using moms-to-be and truly save entire families. Dr. Johnson has over 20 years of experience in primary care, public health and global health as a clinician, teacher, policy-maker, technical advisor and manager. Her first experiences in how to deliver high quality comprehensive family health care were gained as a resident at La Famila Medical Center in the late 1990s. Since then, she has provided health care services to diverse populations from all over the world. Her career has been focused on health justice both in the US and in internationally. She has worked or volunteered on health projects in Mozambique, Vietnam, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, South Africa, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Haiti, India, El Salvador, and Guatemala. She is currently Medical Director at La Familia Medical Center in Santa Fe, Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of Washington’s Departments of Global Health and Health Services and Volunteer Faculty at the University of New Mexico Community Medicine Department. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
WHERE I’VE BEEN SPEAKING
Detroit’s Mass Water Shutoffs
A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS
I was invited by the Detroit Equity Action Lab, the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights and We the People of Detroit to participate in a community meeting and panel discussion drawing attention to the devastating effects of water shutoffs on the health of the poor, as well as on the public health of all citizens of Detroit.
