Isaac Holeman's blog

I havn't been able to dedicate as much time to AM in the past weeks as I would have liked, but I always feel it is most important to contribute when I have a story about why I belive the work of AM is so unique and so important.

My name is Isaac, I'm a student at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. About a month ago, I took a break from organizing with the Archimedes Movement for a semester of study in Havana, Cuba. My program here revolves around learning Spanish, exploring Cuban culture academically and as a participant, and pursuing an independent photojournalism project.

I was first told to Google the Archimedes Movement last spring by a near stranger who had noticed my morbid fascination with the absurdity of our health care system. I had been attracted to health care by an interest in biomedicine and research, but this stranger easily could tell I felt drawn to address the gap between the level of health biomedical science has enabled us to achieve, and the level of health our population actually enjoys. Soon after, I attended the Archimedes kickoff event and have been increasingly involved since.