Events & Media
RECENT AND UPCOMING 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
July 17, 2025
Albuquerque
6:00 pm
Albuquerque Kinship Medicine Book Launch
Albuquerque Launch and reading in conversation with Dara Saville, Author of The Ecology of Herbal Medicine.
Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque NM
august 4, 2025
Cleveland
7:00-9:00 pm
Cuyahoga County Public Library “Beyond the Bookjacket” Speaker Series
Join Wendy for the Launch of her Ohio Tour. A reading and conversation with Aparna Bole, MD. Book sales by Mac’s Backs.
Cuyahoga County Public Library Brooklyn Branch, 7619 Memphis Avenue, Brooklyn, Ohio
august 6, 2025
Columbus
8:00 pm
Columbus Author Reading
Book talk and reading at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters.
Two Dollar Radio Headquarters 1124 Parsons Avenue, Columubs, Ohio
august 7, 2025
Toldeo
7:00 pm
Toledo Lucas County Public Library “Authors!” Speaker Series
Book talk and reading at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters.
Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Main Library 325 Michigan Street, Toledo, Ohio.
August 8, 2025
Detroit
6:00 pm
Detroit Book Talk at Source Booksellars
Book talk and reading at The Source Booksellars, in conversation with Martina Guzman.
Source Booksellars 4240 Cass Avenue #105, Detroit Michigan.
September 8, 2025
Seattle
7:30 pm
Town Hall Kinship Medicine Book Talk in Conversation with Tessa Hulls
Book talk and reading in conversation with Tessa Hulls.
Town Hall 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, Washington
June 2025
Maine
The Writer’s Hotel Mini MFA
I will be a Teaching Assistant in The Writer’s Hotel “Mini MFA” Writers’ Conference in Maine summer 2025.
Last weekend each month
103.7 KTRC and Santafe.ccom
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
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.
