Oct 3, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
This conversation is presented as audio only. What does it mean to be an immigrant when the country you call home is having a very public reckoning over immigration, identity and who belongs? And…
Natalie BencivengaHostAnd the reason I wanted to have this conversation with you Ozzy, outside of just learning about your incredible story, was the cultural competency angle of this and the cultural humility aspect, which I want to dig into here in a moment.
And I was so grateful that you brought that term to my mind and for us to all share with our audience today, because the reality is, you know, I don't have to tell you, but we're going through a real hell right now in this nation.
Of just acknowledging who gets to decide who belongs here and what kind of immigrants are allowed to be here, right? Yes.
And I think it's a perfect time to talk a little bit about cultural humility and how the journey within ourselves can help us and expand us to becoming perhaps more connected to to the people around us, even if we do not know them as we know ourselves.
So can you talk a little bit about where this concept originated from and why you sort of gravitated to it in your own work?
I'm worried my internet's not good, even though it's showing me that it's fantastic because I lost a little bit.
They were two family practice physicians who sort of saw the damage being done by cultural competence training.
So, again, I think, you know, cultural humility is not unique to social work.
It is a concept that I think is very universal to our human experience.
And so that's a part of the title, actually, of the book is like, you know, Journeys in Cultural Humility, Social Work Edition.
Because I don't I believe that there are so many professions that actually engage in humility as a part of things.
And the reason I wanted to have this conversation with you Ozzy, outside of just learning about your incredible story, was the cultural competency angle of this and the cultural humility aspect, which I want to dig into here in a moment.
And I was so grateful that you brought that term to my mind and for us to all share with our audience today, because the reality is, you know, I don't have to tell you, but we're going through a real hell right now in this nation.
Of just acknowledging who gets to decide who belongs here and what kind of immigrants are allowed to be here, right? Yes.
And I think it's a perfect time to talk a little bit about cultural humility and how the journey within ourselves can help us and expand us to becoming perhaps more connected to to the people around us, even if we do not know them as we know ourselves.
So can you talk a little bit about where this concept originated from and why you sort of gravitated to it in your own work?
I'm worried my internet's not good, even though it's showing me that it's fantastic because I lost a little bit.
They were two family practice physicians who sort of saw the damage being done by cultural competence training.
So, again, I think, you know, cultural humility is not unique to social work.
It is a concept that I think is very universal to our human experience.
And so that's a part of the title, actually, of the book is like, you know, Journeys in Cultural Humility, Social Work Edition.
Because I don't I believe that there are so many professions that actually engage in humility as a part of things.
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