For Uchenna Jones, it’s all about family.
As a labor and delivery nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital, she helps start new families. And as the organizer of the Madison Gospel 5K, the Motivated Females walking group and the Sole Sisters Run Madtown running group, she helps keep those families healthy. The first-ever Madison Gospel 5k will take place on July 20 and include a full-fledged health fair, as well.
“My whole thing is family health,” she says. “Look at all these programs that we have that say, ‘Okay, we have to focus on the kids.’ The kids are only as healthy as their parents. Then we have programs that focus on the men. Well that man came from a mother and a father, right? Same thing for the mother, right? But if you look at the whole family unit, you would yield the biggest results.”