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Oni Blackstock is a physician, entrepreneur, researcher, executive director and founder of Health Justice, a racial and health equity consulting practice whose primary focus is to center anti-racism and equity in the workplace and reduce health inequities in the communities they serve. Blackstock was inspired to become a doctor after witnessing her mother do the same in New York. As a former assistant commissioner of the New York City Health Department, Blackstock led the city's response to the HIV epidemic. Blackstock is championed in the public health sphere as she is passionate and vocal about achieving health equity for folks in marginalized communities. “My background, the way I was raised, was always very much rooted in social justice," she said. "And I think so much of my work had maybe not explicitly addressed issues around social justice, but it was always sort of a part of my work."