Diversity CRNA Journey...Past & Present!

Devon Locust, CRNA, MSN graduated Wayne State University Nurse Anesthesia Program 2013.

As a marginalized critical care nurse and respiratory therapist snd Army Sergeant, he attended a Diversity CRNA 2010 Information Session & Airway Sim Lab Workshop, Respiratory Therapist. Immediately, he aas Introduced to Black male CRNAs from across the country.

In 2011, Devon was the only Black male nurse anesthesia student in his cohort with 2.3% Black CRNAs. Hence, making a conscious decision to introduce him to Black men CRNAs. Today, there are 4% Black CRNAs out of a 70K Nurse Anesthesia workforce.

This is the Immersion Model for Diversifying Nurse Anesthesia Programs at it’s very best!

Besides,

They’ll see how beautiful I a
mAnd be ashamed

I, too, am America. ~ Langston Hughes

Last Saturday…

Meet the CRNA moderator for the Diversity CRNA 2025 Doctorate Symposium at North Carolina A&T State University School of Nursing (March 15th).

Dr. Tedrick Vernon, III, DNP, CRNA Co-Chair, Diversity CRNA HBCU Tour, Alumni, NCA&T SON & proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Nursing students, RNs, CRNAs & NPs will be attending the Diversity CRNA Doctorate Symposium with Black PhD CRNAs, Researchers, Advance Pain Management Fellows, Certified Nurse Midwife & Educator panelists.

Moderators Diversity CRNA with Co-Chairs of the Diversity CRNA HBCU Tour Dr. Tedrick Vernon CRNA & Kim Soden, CRNA, MSN will set the tone of the future CRNAs, Certified Nurse Midwives & NPs.

CRNAs will earn AANA Class A Credits for this event!

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America. ~ Langston Hughes

A recognized leader in Nurse Anesthesia from Emory University School of Nursing, Dr. Everett Moss, DNP, CRNA

It is a honor and privilege to be recognized amongst 2025 Award Recipients!

Each year, the Nurses Alumni Association (NAA) honors alumni and friends who are committed to the key values and missions of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (NHWSN) and NAA.

Recent Graduate Award is awarded to a NHWSN graduate from the past ten years who has contributed exceptional service to the NHWSN Alumni Association, the School of Nursing, and/or to the profession of nursing. The individual’s contributions to the nursing profession may be in one or more nursing practice specialties: research, education, clinical practice, management/leadership, public health and/or community service.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

Welcome to the Diversity CRNA Wellness & Joy Collective!

CRNAs, Nurse Anesthesia Residents, Nurses & Nursing Students...Please join us for the Diversity CRNA Wellness & Joy Collective!
 
Learn more about it on our website and be about it at Diversity CRNA 2025 Information Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshop Events, Diversity CRNA HBCU School of Nursing Tours & Diversity CRNA Doctorate Symposium!!
 
This platform emerged for our Diversity CRNA Community, with a mission to foster joy, wellness, and a sense of belonging among underrepresented CRNAs and future CRNAs.
 
Thank you, Levia Sutton, MSN, CRNA, University of Pennsylvania PhD Student & Robert Wood Johnson Policy Scholar for leading this initiative!