Hey guys so Right now I'm looking at type aura type aura is a really good Markdown editor that I've been using for a while and I think that most people should actually Consider using it for doing their note taking Type aura uses Markdown in the back end so it's really nice because you don't really have to use type aura the format Isn't only for type aura you can take this and you can put it into any other Markdown editor and you can get the same results But type aura is actually pretty good because it has a few features that other Markdown editors don't have and some of these includes Mathematics you can have a mathematical notation in this and the second one is syntax highlighting for co blocks and I'll show you that later with some of the more basic features that people may not know about is Like for example, if you have a paragraph like let's say you say Hello everyone What you can do is you can actually bold this this This word here by typing control B and you have it bolded or you can have something like you can Underline it using control U so you underlined this one how is everyone doing and You can also do something like you can Do a straight through so you can say all shift and five and that that gives you a straight through where I know this is like a really simple. This is just like simple text lettering, but it kind of shows you that When you use type aura it shows you what you're doing right away unlike other Markdown editors like for example if I click on hello You can see that I'm shown the syntax of like how this is being Formatted, but at the same time when I click away It doesn't show you that syntax anymore But if you actually want to see the syntax full-time you can you can go here You can click on this toggle source code mode And you'll be able to see exactly what's happening right away. Like you can actually see like how all of this is being formatted Some of the other basic features that this has is you can do headings like one you can do whoops Heading to type or actually has a feature where you can increase and decrease headings with Shortcuts so if you do control minus it's going to reduce your heading or increase your heading, but if you do Control equal sign that's gonna Well, it just makes the heading bigger that's what I mean so again, you can do this and The short shortcut keys are control equal sign and control minus sign You can you can make a table in in this Editor, so if you go up here to paragraph and you go down to Where's this table insert table? You can make a table you can give it like two columns two rows You click okay, you have a table you can write whatever you want here So something like that, I mean it really doesn't matter, but like it's a good feature The thing that I really like about a type aura is that you can have something called a code fence so you make a code fence by Typing I think for back takes and then use a JavaScript and It gives you a JavaScript code fence and what you can do here is you can type some code like F a function f and then that's gonna console log x and Yeah So this right here is really useful because other markdown editors don't really give you syntax highlighting you You kind of have to It's like plug-ins or something, but with type aura you just get right away You get like get all this for free you get out of the box And nothing that maybe smart people would appreciate is you can do math Equations in type aura. I I don't really use this because I don't really do a lot of math But I guess if you need this you can go down to paragraph you can say math block or control shift M and You can say something like frac So that gives you a fraction and this fraction is equal to I don't know Yeah, so there you go. You have a nice little math block here. It looks pretty nice And nothing you can use In type or is you can have vertical the lists you can have an unordered list and that word list and this is actually pretty useful and You make a list like this you have a couple of items and You can select these items a new type control and then either opening score bracket or closing score bracket Is our control shift and then opening or closing square bracket and there you go So you get something like eggs milk Meat and then if you want the other one if you want the order list you can do something like this You can also have a task list Where you go up here you add a task list and then you say something like buy eggs buy milk by meat and then when you do your Shopping against you just like take it off and be like, yeah, I did these things You can also look at all this in the source code and see how this is actually done So if you want to take this out of type or and put it into a different markdown editor You can actually do this pretty simply. I think that I think this is only supported in latex editors So This may not work Okay finally and also Type or has a couple of themes that come they come pre-installed with it So right now I'm using the get hub theme. You can change it to a newsprint and that changes the theme open I guess and you can set it tonight you can set it to pixley and This one Yeah, so you can just pick whatever you want. I think get hub looks the most standard looks pretty nice Anyways, this is my review of tape or a


The history of suffrage is very long, and it is checkered. And getting into this, you learn that it's complicated. So while on paper all women were given the right to vote all across the country in 1920, lots of women weren't able to vote because of barriers, especially Black women, indigenous women, other women of color, and other marginalized communities. And so this year, we're really giving an opportunity. Our program focuses on the experiences of not the white woman, especially the middle class woman. In some ways, I feel a little strange talking about this as a white middle class woman. But our program really is lots of individuals, all but Annette Gordon-Reed, our Vermonner, is living in Vermont, who have experienced voting from a different perspective. Annette Gordon-Reed is African-American. She is a native of Texas. She is a noted historian. Her book, The Hemmings of Monticello, an American family won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. And she also has a recent book on Juneteenth, and she will be the keynoter. But we have a Native American speaker, Melody Macon. We have Nia Schultz, who was the president of the Rutland Area NAACP chapter, and also works in advocacy for voting rights and equality. She's the emcee. She's really going to sort of weave together all the different elements of the program. She is also African-American. We have a poet and storyteller, Florence Parris-Mayer. We have a vocalist, popular and well-known vocalist, Nicole Nelson. And we have an artist. And she has started a painting called The Light of Truth Upon Them. And this is commissioned by the League of Women Voters of Vermont Education Fund and the Suffrage Alliance. And she started that, but she's going to continue working on it at the event on August 14. Saturday, Montpelier, three to five on the state house lawn. It's free. Bring your own chair or water. There aren't going to be any vendors there. And the rain site is actually in the house chamber in the state house. So she's going to be actually continuing the work on her painting at the event. We have a woman who's retired from Jean Silva from the UVM College of Medicine. And she's going to speak on gender inclusion. We have two high school students who are going to read personal essays about voting. So it's really going to be a very full program with perspectives that we believe a lot of people don't hear in Vermont all that often and that are part of our wonderful Vermont community and that we believe should be heard. It's been fun to observe this coming together by people who have different experiences and are willing to share them. We also have a filmmaker that's going to film the event. Plus it's going to be filmed by Orca, which is the public access station in central Vermont. We should be proud. We have both with same day voting on the day of the election, which includes same day registration. We can register online. People that are incarcerated can register by absentee. High school students that are going to be 18 by the time of the election, or they don't have to be in high school, but individuals who are going to be 18 by the time of the election can, or by the time of the primary, can register and vote. And we have very expansive early voting. You can, in fact, I believe it's optional for the towns, they can send ballots now to everybody or they can use the system before where you could request an early ballot or you could just go into your town or city clerk's office and get your ballot right there and vote and hand it in. So now compared to other states, probably the state that who's proposed changes are the most troubling and I'm not an expert on them, but is Texas, but there have been changes in Georgia. The one in Texas has not yet been enacted. That's an ongoing contest, I would say, between those that supported and those that don't. And then the Supreme Court has essentially supported some, I would say some negative conditions for voting in Arizona that I believe that decision is not a good one for really improving access, especially with our indigenous population, which is very large out there and they don't have a lot of post office boxes around or to mail a ballot back or voting places, I believe they're really limited who can take a mail-in ballot to a voting place. So it's a difficult time for voting rights in many parts of the United States. And that's another thing. We really want people to be aware of that. And there are ways you can get involved in trying to help things be as good as they are in Vermont. People don't have a lot to complain about in Vermont, especially when they think of what's happening elsewhere. So it's pretty good in Vermont. Well, Sandy, thank you. I know that the League of Women Voters is often unsung, but that you have supported open elections and widespread voting opportunities and the Vermont Suffrage Alliance is another outgrowth of that work and focuses on 100 years of suffrage for women, but not for everyone and how hard fought that those rights still are today. So thank you for bringing our attention to that and creating the celebration with your colleagues and we'll look forward to seeing the August 14th event. Great, I hope you can come and everybody that's watching, I hope you come too. But if you don't come, it'll be on various public media channels on shore. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Sandy, and we'll talk to you again. Good, thank you. Have a good day. You too.


Hey, everyone, welcome back to theCUBE's day-long coverage of Women in Data Science 2023. Live from Stanford University, I'm Lisa Martin. We've had some amazing conversations today with my wonderful co-host, as you've seen. Tracy Jung joins me next for a very interesting and inspiring conversation. I know we've been bringing them to you, we're bringing you another one here. Dr. Irene Dankwimolen joins us, the chief medical officer at Marty Health and a speaker at Woods. Welcome, Irene, it's great to have you. Thank you, I'm delighted to be here. Thank you so much for this opportunity. So you have an MD and a master of public health. COVID must have been an interesting time for you with an MPH. Very much so. Yeah, talk a little bit about you, your background and Marty Health, this is interesting, this is a brand new startup. This is a digital health equity startup. Yes, yes. So I'll tell you, I'll start with my story a little bit about myself. So I was actually born in Ghana. I finished high school there and came here for college. What would I say, after I finished my undergraduate, I went to medical school at Dartmouth. And I always knew I wanted to go into public health as well as medicine. So my medical education was actually five years. I did the MPH and my medical degree. At the same time, I got my MPH from Yale, School of Public Health. And after I finished, I trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins. And after that, I went into public health. I am currently living in Maryland, so I'm in Bethesda, Maryland, and that's where I've been. And really enjoyed public health, community health, combining that aspect of prevention and wellness and also working in making sure that we have community health clinics and safety net clinics. So great experience there. I also had the privilege of, after eight years in public health, I went to the National Institutes of Health. Oh, wow. Where I basically worked in clinical research, basically on minority health and health disparities. So I was in various leadership roles and helped to advance the science of health equity, working in collaboration with a lot of scientists and researchers at the NIH, really to advance the science. Where did your interest in health equity come from? Was there a defining moment when you were younger and you thought, there's a lot of inequities here. We have to do something about this. Where did that interest start? That's a great question. I think this influence was basically maybe from my upbringing as well as my family and also what I saw around me in Ghana, a lot of preventable diseases. I always say that my grandfather on my father's side was a great influence, inspired me and influenced my career because he was the only sibling, really, that went to school. And as a result, he was able to earn enough money and built a hospital in the hometown. It started as a 20-bed hospital and now it's a 350-bed hospital in our hometown. He knew that education was important and vital as well for well-being. And so he really inspired, you know, his work inspired me. And I remember in residency, I went with a group of residents to this hospital in Ghana just to help over a summer break. So during a summer where we went and helped take care of the sick patients and actually learned what it is like to care for so many patients. And it was really a humbling experience. But that really inspired me. I think also being in this country and when I came to the US and really saw fast-hand how patients are treated differently based on their background or socioeconomic status, I did see firsthand that kind of unconscious bias and drew me to the field of health disparities research and wanted to learn more and do more and contribute. Yeah, so I was curious just when the data science aspect taps in, like, what did you decide that, okay, data science is going to be a problem-solving tool to all the problems you just said? Yeah, that's a good question. So while I was at the NIH, I spent eight years there and precision medicine was launched at that time and there was a lot of heightened interest in big data and how big data could help really revolutionize medicine and health care. And I got the opportunity to go to, there was an opportunity where they were looking for physicians or deputy chief health officer at IBM. And so I went to IBM, Watson Health was being formed as a new business unit and I was one of the first deputy chief health officers really to lead the data and the science evidence. And that's where I realized we could really, the technology and health care has really, there's been a lot of data that I think we're not really using or optimizing to make sure that we're taking care of our patients. And so that's how I got into data science and making sure that we are building technologies, using the right data to advance health equity. Right, so talk a little bit about health equity. We mentioned you're with Marty Health, you've been there for a short time, but Marty Health is also quite new, just a few months old, digital health equity. Talk about what Marty's vision is, what its mission is to really help start dialing down a lot of the disparities that you talked about that you see every day. Yeah, so I've been so privileged. I recently joined Marty Health as their chief medical officer, chief health officer. It's a startup that is actually trying to promote a value-based care, also promote patient-centered care for patients that are experiencing a social disadvantage as a result of their race, ethnicity. And we're starting to look at focused on patients that have sickle cell disease. Okay. Because we realize that that's a population. You know, we know sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder. It impacts a lot of patients that are from, and areas that are endemic malaria. Yeah. And most of our patients here are African-American. And when, you know, they suffer so much stigma and discrimination in the healthcare system and complications from this sickle cell disease. And so what we want to do that we feel like sickle cell is a litmus test for disparities. And we want to make sure that they get in patient-centered care. We want to make sure that we're leveraging data and the research that we've done in sickle cell disease, especially on the continent of Africa, and provide, promote better care, quality care for the patients. That's so inspiring. You know, we've heard so many great stories today. Were you able to watch the keynote this morning? Yes. I loved how it always inspires me. This conference is always, we were talking about this all day, how you walk in the Ariaga Alumni Center here where this event is held every year. And the vibe is powerful, it's positive, it's encouraging, it's a community. It's inspiring for you. It's inspiring. It's a movement, WIDS is a movement. They've created this community where you feel, I don't know, kind of superhuman. Why can't I do this? Why not me? We heard some great stories this morning about data science in terms of applications. You have a great application in terms of health equity. We heard about it in police violence, which is an epidemic in this country for sure, as we know, this happens too often. How can we use data and data science as a facilitator of learning more about that so that that can stop? I think that's so important for more people to understand all of the broad applications of data science, whether it's police violence or climate change or drug discovery or health inequities. And health, yeah. The potential, I think we're scratching the surface, but the potential is massive. It is. This is an event that really helps women and underrepresented minorities think, why not me? Why can't I get involved in that? Yeah, and I always say we use data to make a lot of decisions. And especially in healthcare, we want to be careful about how we are using data because this is impacting the health and outcomes of our patients. And so science evidence is really critical. You know, we want to make sure that data is inclusive and we have quality data. And it's transparent. Our clinical trials, I always say, are not always diverse and inclusive. And if that's going to form the evidence base or data points, then we're doing more harm than good for our patients. And so data science, it's huge. I mean, we need a robust, responsible, trustworthy data science agenda. Trust, you just brought up trust. When we talk about data, we can't not talk about security and privacy and ethics, but trust is table stakes. We have to be able to evaluate the data and trust in it and what it says and the story that can be told from it. So that trust factor is, I think, foundational to data science. We'll see what happened with COVID, right? I mean, when the pandemic came out, everyone, I mean, wanted information. We wanted data. We could trust. There was a lot of hesitancy even with the vaccine, right? And so public health, I mean, like you said, we had to do a lot of work making sure that the right information from the right data was being translated or conveyed to the communities. And so you're totally right. I mean, data is and good information, relevant data is always key. Is there anything else? Oh, sorry. Is there anything Marty House is doing in ensuring that you guys get the right data that you can put trust in it? Yeah, absolutely. And so this is where we are, part of it would be getting data, real world evidence data for patients who are being seen in the healthcare system with sickle cell disease so that we can personalize the data to those patients and provide them with the right treatment, the right intervention that they need. And so part of it would be doing predictive modeling on some of the data, stratifying risk who in the sickle cell patient population is at risk of progressing or getting, they all often get crisis, vasoclusive crisis because there's cells, the blood cell sickles and you want to avoid those chest crisis. And so part of what we'll be doing is doing use and predictive modeling to target those at risk of the disease being progressing so that we can put in preventive measures. It's all about prevention. It's all about making sure that they not be in, going to the hospital or the emergency room where sometimes they end up in pain and one in pain medicine and so. Do you see AI as being a critical piece in the transformation of healthcare, especially where inequities are concerned? Absolutely. And when you say AI, I think it's responsible AI and making sure that it's- That's such a good point, Derey. With the right data, with relevant data is definitely key. I think there is so much data points that healthcare has in the healthcare space. There's physical data, biological data, there's environmental data. And we're not using it to the full capacity or full potential. And I think AI can do that if we do it carefully and like I said, responsibly. That's a key word. You talked about responsibility where data science AI is concerned. It has to be not an afterthought. It has to be intentional. Exactly. And there needs to be a lot of education around it. Most people think AI is just for the technology, right, group. But I think we're all part of, everyone needs to make sure that we're collecting the right amount of data. I think we all play a part in making sure that we have responsible AI. We have good data, quality data and the data science is a multidisciplinary field, I think. Which is one of the things that's exciting about it is it is multidisciplinary. Exactly. And so many of the people that we've talked to in data science have these very nonlinear paths to get there. And so I think they bring such diversity of thought and backgrounds and experiences and thoughts and voices. That helps train the AI models with data that's more inclusive, dropping down the volume on the bias that we know is there. To be successful, it has to. Definitely, it definitely is. What are some of the things as we wrap up here that you're looking forward to accomplishing as part of MARTI Health? Maybe what's on the roadmap that you can share with us for MARTI as it approaches the second half of its first year? Yes, it's all about promoting health equity. It's all about, I mean, there's so much, well, I would start with, you know, part of the healthcare transformation is making sure that we are promoting care that's based on value and not volume. Care that's based on good health outcomes, quality health outcomes, and not just on, you know, the quantity. And so MARTI Health is trying to promote that value-based care. We are envisioning a world in which everyone can live their full life potential, have the best health outcomes, and provide that patient-centered precision care. And we all want that, we all want that. We expect that precision and that personalized experience in our consumer lives. Why not in healthcare? Well, thank you, Irene, for joining us on the program today, talking about what you're doing to really help drive the volume up on health equity and raise awareness for the fact that there's a lot of inequities in there. We have to fix, we have a long way to go. Yes. But people like you are making an impact and we appreciate you joining theCUBE today and sharing what you're doing. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing. Thank you for having me here. Oh, our pleasure. For our guests and Tracy Zhang, this is Lisa Martin from WIDDS 2023, the eighth annual Women in Data Science Conference brought to you by theCUBE. Stick around, our show wrap will be in just a minute. Thanks for watching.