Cynthia Adinig is a marketing specialist turned Long COVID advocate. She is the co-founder of BIPOC Equity Agency which is a diversity, equity, and inclusion agency with a focus on healthcare, policy, and research. She is a board member of SolveME, and a steering member of the Long COVID Alliance. She has testified on Capitol Hill on Long COVID and racism, and has been featured in TIME, The Washington Post, USA Today, and NBC News among others. Cynthia discusses her journey with Long COVID, her life in advocacy, and the work she's doing with BIPOC Equity Agency.

David Tuller obtained his Doctorate in public health from UC Berkeley. He is a senior fellow in public health and journalism at UC Berkeley’s Center for Global Public Health. 

He was a reporter and editor for ten years at The San Francisco Chronicle, and served as health editor at Salon. He has also written articles about public health and medical issues for The New York Times and the policy journal Health Affairs. 

Since 2015, he has been investigating scientific, methodological, and ethical problems with research on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. His ongoing series on this issue, Trial By Error, can be found on Virology Blog, the science site hosted by Vincent Racaniello, a microbiology professor at Columbia University. 

This episode concludes season one of Chronically Complex. We’ll be off in the month of February while we make some improvements to the show. If you have any suggestions you’d like us to consider, send us an email at podcast@meaction.net. We look forward to continuing the conversation in March!

Steven and Jaime sit down with #MEAction's executive director, Laurie Jones, as the end-of-year fundraiser winds down to a close. Laurie has years of experience working in non-profits and in the arts. Prior to joining the #MEAction team, Laurie was the Director of Impact for Unrest, using the film to educate and advocate for those in the ME community. She has served as Programs Director at Brave New Films, worked on the Why Poverty? film campaign and fundraised for United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. She has a BA in Production Studies in Performing Arts from Clemson University, and an MA in Applied Human Rights from the University of York.

If you'd like to donate to #MEAction, you can do so here: https://www.meaction.net/donate

As was mentioned in the episode, you can sign up for the Chronic Illness Survey Adventure here: https://www.meaction.net/epi