Welcome to Black Cancer, a podcast about the nuances of our lives as people of color told through our cancer journeys. I'm your host, Jodi-Ann Burey. On today’s show, Angelica Garcia joins me to talk about self-advocacy as women of color and how sustaining that work needs to be. For ourselves and for our familes in the US and abroad. We learn about Angelica through her experiences caring for her cousin’s cancer journey in the US, her father’s cancer journey in Colombia, and then her own years old cancer scare coming back to haunt her - right at the start of a pandemic. Where do we put our energy and focus as we navigate the challenges in our lives? How do we integrate our identities with our traumas?

Here's my conversation with Angelica:

• How sharing our stories connects us with others (8:06)
• Angelica finds out she had to have her thyroid removed(27:47)
• Finding out that her father was sick with cancer in Colombia (50:50)