LIFE SKILLS LIST SHARED BY DR. LOURDES RODRIGUEZ (ADDITIONS WELCOMED!)

          FROM LAS COMADRES SPEAKER SERIES

Coordinators  Maria Ferrer & Aileen Schlef

Greetings, Comadres.   We had a great Q&A session with Dr. Lourdes Rodriguez, Comadre and the new CEO of The Rockefeller Fund.  One of the things discussed was a life-work balance.  Lourdes makes it her mission to always have time for her family – collectively and individually.  She had three teenage sons and has a Life Skills List for them which she has graciously shared.  See below.

 

 

 

FROM DR. LOURDES RODRIGUEZ

 

Queridas Comadres, that was SO MUCH FUN! Thanks for having me. As promised, see list below. 

 

 

LIFE SKILLS LIST (in no particular order)

 

1. Learn how to pray for self and others

 

2. Understand and do your taxes

 

3. Do laundry

 

4. Cook at least five different meals

 

5. Thread a needle and replace a button, mend clothes

 

6. Fill out medical forms and make doctor’s appointments

 

7. Use public transportation

 

8. Clean a bathroom

 

9. Load a dishwasher

 

10. Go grocery shopping

 

11. Iron clothes

 

12. Bake a loaf of bread from scratch

 

13. Practice first aid basics

 

14. Read a nutritional label

 

15. Learn to drive

 

16. Make a household budget

 

17. Make a reservation (restaurant, or hotel)

 

18. Post a letter

 

19. Book a flight

 

20. Learn to dance with a partner (preferably salsa)

 

21. Learn good sleeping habits (in Elisa’s words: sleep an entire day)

 

22. Have good study habits

 

23. Learn the art of haggling: “ask: Can you do any better?”

 

 

*** WE ENCOURAGE OTHER COMADRES TO ADD TO THIS LIFE SKILLS LIST 

IN THE COMMENT SECTION.***

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 --- PERINATAL HEALTH WITH DR. LOURDES J. RODRIGUEZ

 

Join us on Wednesday, May 5, at 6pm Central, (4pm Pacific, 5pm Mountain, 7pm Eastern and Puerto Rico) for a discussion on Perinatal Health with Dr. Lourdes J. Rodriguez, PhD, Senior Program Officer at St. David’s Foundation.

It has been widely publicized that Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States and, by extension, the developed world. Equally worrisome, maternal morbidity – causes of disease associated with pregnancy – have been on the rise in Texas for the past 20 years. Join us for a conversation about the contributing factors and what actions we can take to improve maternal outcomes for all women.

St. David's Foundation focuses its work in central Texas: A nationwide nonprofit doing work in Central Texas (defined as: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis or Williamson Counties), that benefits residents of those counties, may apply for our funding.

As Comadres, we can harness our strengths to reverse these trends and contribute towards full term births and healthy pregnancies.

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When: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

(4pm Pacific, 5pm Mountain, 7pm Eastern and Puerto Rico)  

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OUR PRESENTER:  Comadre Dr. Lourdes J. Rodríguez serves as Senior Program Officer at St. David’s Foundation overseeing the Women’s Health portfolio of work. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2020, Lourdes served as Associate Professor and Director of Community-Driven Initiatives at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Lourdes also worked as Program Officer at the New York State Health Foundation, and from 2004–2012, she co-directed the Urbanism and the Built Environment track in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.  As a public health practitioner, and in both academic and philanthropic roles, she collaborates, develops and evaluates initiatives to improve health with people most impacted by health inequities.  Lourdes has a Doctorate in Public Health from Columbia University, a Master of Public Health from the University of Connecticut, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.  Dr. Rodríguez is a member of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and currently holds an appointment as an Adjunct Faculty with the UTHealth School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus. 

      

 

Learn more about the St. David’s Foundation and its programs by visiting their website:  www.stdavidsfoundation.org

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