Ann Hirschman

Ann Hirschman
Born	1946 or 1947 (age 78–79) [1]
Known for	Street medic training

Ann Hirschman is an American nurse practitioner and an elder of the street medic movement.

Early life and career

Ann Hirschman was trained as a nurse, graduating in 1967. She became a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, where she joined a faction that expressed a moral obligation to assist the civil rights movement. In 1969, Hirschman happened upon a Greenwich Village political demonstration. When it turned violent, she began performing first aid with a kit she keeps on her at all times. Hirschman was present at the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation, where she treated a man who had been shot in the head. ^[1] She has been arrested more than ten times and never convicted. ^[2]

Hirschman wrote an early street medic training program and trained activists to become medics. Her trainees were affiliated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers. ^[1] She trained Ron "Doc" Rosen, who started the Colorado Street Medics, one of the oldest street medic organizations in the country. ^[2]

References

1. Bromwich, Jonah Engel (June 10, 2020). "Meet the 'Grandmother of Street Medics'". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331.
2. Whipple, Kelsey (April 18, 2012). "Colorado Street Medics: Meet Ann Hirschman, one of the earliest teachers of street skills". Westword . Retrieved December 24, 2021.