Urban League Young Professionals to Host Second Annual Health and Wellness Fair

By National Urban League
Published12 PM EDT, Wed Apr 23, 2025
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The Urban League of Greater Madison Young Professionals or ULGMYP (Madison, WI) will host their second annual Health and Wellness Fair on Sunday, May 4, at Madison College’s Truax Campus.

The event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is designed to give community members tools and resources to better their health across multiple dimensions — physical, mental, and financial.

“What this event hopes to accomplish is not only allowing our members as a part of the young professionals organization to learn more about their health and their wellness and how to find tools to really lean into practicing better healthy practices, but it also wants to encourage our community to do it as well,” said Bobbie Briggs, ULGMYP personal and professional development chair.

Briggs said this kind of event is especially important for the population ULGMYP serves.

“We are an organization that serves the population of 21- to 40-year-olds. That younger end, you’re literally only, what, three years old in adult years for real. You’re really starting to figure out yourself,” Briggs said. “You’re wrapping up your college years … literally jumping into your career or heading into next steps, … That is a very stressful time in your life. And a lot of those things that we talk about and address at the Health and Wellness Seminar kind of sit at the bottom of your list of priorities.”

The keynote speakers include Afra Smith, founder of the Melanin Project, who will speak on financial health, and Myra McNair, founder of Anesis Center for Marriage & Family Therapy, who will focus on mental health. 

Other speakers include Dr. Anna Mirer, Family Medicine Physician at Presence Primary Care in Milwaukee; Dr. India Anderson-Carter, OB/Gyn at UW-Health and Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; and Dr. Keven Stonewall, Family Medicine resident physician at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

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