Our Favorite Media

Rhoda Cerny

Rhoda Cerny
Co-lead Wellness Champions
Environmental Science & Engineering, Culture of Health

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• SoulSpace, Transform Your Home, Transform Your Life – Creating a Home that is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty and Designed by You (by Xorin Balbes)
• House Thinking – A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live (by Winifred Gallagher)
• Biophilic Design – The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life (by Keller, Heerwagen, and Mador)

Myka Elliott

Myka Elliott
Co-lead Wellness Champions
Maternal and Child Health

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• Shoot First (by Stuart Woods)
• If I Was Your Girl (by Meredith Russo)
• The Murderer’s Daughter (by Jonathan Kellerman)

Deshana Cabasan-Hunte

Deshana Cabasan-Hunte
Gillings Office of Student Affairs

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• Caste (by Isabel Wilkerson)
• The Color of Law (by Richard Rothenstein)
• Catherine House (by Elisabeth Thomas)

Top Three Podcasts

• Feel Better with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
• The Daily – New York Times
• Code Switch – NPR

Tamala Grissett
Maternal and Child Health

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• White Fragility (by Robin DiAngelo)
• Lovecraft Country (by Matt Ruff)
• Killing The Black Body (by Dorothy Roberts)

Kira Jones

Kira Jones
Environmental Science & Engineering

Maija Leff

Maija Leff
Health Behavior

Julie McManus

Julie McManus
Facilities

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• The Overstory (by Richard Powers)
• Good Housekeeping Christmas Cookies
• The Grommet Catalog

Top Three Podcasts

• The West Wing Weekly
• Good Old Grateful Deadcast
• Pod Save America

Linda Mitchell

Linda Mitchell
Gillings Human Resources

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• APT packets
• Emails
• Texts

Melissa Walter, MPH

Melissa Walter
Nutrition

Wellness Tip
Breathe. It is the cheapest and easiest thing we can do to improve our health and wellbeing! Set timers throughout the day reminding you to stop and take a few deep breaths, and see if you notice the improvement in your focus, sense of calm, digestion, aches and pains, etc.

Three Things I’ve Read Recently or am Currently Reading

• Think Like a Monk (by Jay Shetty)
• The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs (by Tristan Gooley)
• The Genomic Kitchen (by Amanda Archibald)

Top Three Podcasts

• Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
• Sweaty and Pissed
• NPR Life Kit