Chika Stacy Oriuwa is a Canadian physician, spoken word artist, and advocate against systemic racism in health care.
[3] Oriuwa graduated from McMaster University with a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences and then took a gap year to focus on poetry.
[6] In 2016, Oriuwa began a combined medical degree and Master of Science at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, where she was the only Black student in her class.
[8] In 2017, the University of Toronto created the Black Student Application Program (BSAP), an optional application process that requires the same standards and includes an interview process conducted by members of the Black community, faculty, and students,[10] and Oriuwa became an ambassador and public face of the program.
[16] She has said she uses poetry both as an outlet for her struggles with encountering racism and as a form of advocacy against it and during her second year of medical school, created a spoken word video titled, "Woman, Black.