Events & Media
RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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.
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.
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 The Coyote and the Cottonwood.
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.
May 2011
Seattle
Can Seattle Save the World? Poverty, Health and Chocolate
In 2011, I spoke at the Seattle Town Hall on how to put health back into global health. I have spoken about topics like this at other venues, such Cleveland’s City Club. Read more about the Seattle talk 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.
