Funding Rural Podcast Episode #17: Kicking the Door Open with Erik Brodt, MD

Erik Brodt, MD (Ojibwe) knows that there are experts all around us — many of whom go unrecognized.  As a Native American Healthcare provider he works to ensure that American Indian/Alaska Native youth know they have a place in health care.  He challenges philanthropy to look beyond the typical expert, to ask questions differently, and to spend time getting to know the impact of programming —what and whom — thinking beyond the traditional model of scalability.

“If you show up and you ask questions differently, or if you ask the questions and then you pause to listen for an answer that might be different then what you were hoping for or expecting,  you might learn a lot that day.” —Erik Brodt, MD

Read more and listen to the full podcast episode here.