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DotHouse Health proudly presents our annual fundraiser DotFest: A Community Carnival on Thursday evening, May 19th, 2022. This event will be held virtually in light of necessary COVID-19 precautions. DotFest serves as a celebration of our diverse community of sponsors, staff, Board members, neighbors, and individual donors. DotFest remains as a vital annual fundraising event for DotHouse as the need in our community is more crucial now than ever before. For this year’s fundraiser, DotFest will honor three incredible advocates with strong connections to the DotHouse Health Community – Dr. Thea James, Jamison Cloud, and Megan Sonderegger, RN. Our honorees reflect the strengthand diversity of our neighborhoods, and all have a passion in continuing to improve access to health care and reduce disparities in our communities. Our first honoree, Dr. Thea James, holds several roles at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). She is the Vice President for Mission at BMC. Dr. James recognizes the impact, intersections and risks that health injustice, health and wealth, and other structural determinants of health pose to patients. She has dedicated her career to closing these gaps, improving health equity through social emergency medicine, and making sure that patients and communities of all backgrounds have opportunities to alter their life course trajectory and to thrive.Our second honoree, Jamison Cloud, is one of many local organizers for the Dorchester Community Fridge; a mutual aid effort in Fields Corner providing free food for the community through donations, contributions, crowd-sourcing, food rescue, and community involvement. The Dorchester Community Fridge has broadened pathways for access to food and further sparked conversations into actions around food equity in Boston. Additionally, Mr. Cloud is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist, volunteers in the local arts community, and serves on the board of Fields Corner Main Street.Our last honoree, Megan Sonderegger, RN, joined the DotHouse Health Board of Directors in June 2015 and currently serves as the Chair. As a Registered Nurse, Ms. Sonderegger has the privilege of assisting some of the strongest and most resilient people on their journey toward recovery from substance use disorders. She has served as a nurse to people experiencing homelessness in Boston’s Mass. & Cass. intersection and recently joined Eliot Community Human Services as a nurse manger to work with people moving into permanent housing. Within Dorchester, she has served as president of Meeting House Hill Civic Association and as a board member of Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets.We hope you enjoy our virtual fundraiser and get to learn more about the incredible work that our staff members have provided this past year.For more information, please visit: www.DotFest.Org.Thank you to all of our Corporate, Small Business, and Individual donors!#DotFest2022 #CommunityCarnival #ThankYouDonors #Dorchester #DotHouse