Rep. Karen Bass, a Physician Assistant during the AIDS crisis, talks about the coronavirus
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losangelesblade.comRep. Karen Bass is a fighting social justice community activist at heart. She’s no stranger to adversity, founding the Community Coalition in the late 1980s to fight the crack cocaine epidemic in South LA and the dire conditions that fed it, to being elected the first African American woman Speaker of the California Assembly in 2008/2009 during a significant fiscal crisis, for which she was honored by the John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library with the 2010 Profile in Courage Award. Now she serves as Chair of the important Black Congressional Caucus dealing with the Trump administration.
But it’s the knowledge she gained as a Physician Assistant and clinical instructor at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine
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