Season FIVE Episode SEVEN of the Your Story Our Fight® podcast welcomes Dr. Sheetal Desai, MD, MSED. Sheetal Desai completed medical school at the University of Southern California (USC) followed by Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at UCLA. She pursued a Master of Science in Medical Education from the USC Rossier School of Education. She joined the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as rheumatology faculty in 2007. She was program director of the UCI Rheumatology Fellowship for 10 years, Chief of Rheumatology for 7 years and is currently Executive Vice Chair of Medicine. Her clinical interests are Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, collaboration across specialties to create Multidisciplinary clinics, and gender equity in medicine.

Season SIX Episode FIVE of the Your Story Our Fight® podcast welcomes Linda Park. In this episode, we sit down with the multi-talented Linda Park. Known for her iconic roles in Star Trek: Enterprise and Bosch, and most recently seen in Peacock’s The Paper and Netflix’s A Man on the Inside, Linda has spent her career acting alongside industry greats.
But behind the scenes, Linda has navigated a different journey: a lupus diagnosis at age eighteen.
As an actress, dancer, and award-winning screenwriter, Linda shares the inspiration behind her new project, Edie (a story developed at the Sundance Collab) and her journey writing about her experiences with lupus.
For Linda, storytelling became a vital way to process the complex reality of being a woman whose body is her art, her work, and her battleground.
We are so proud to support Linda’s mission to promote lupus awareness through evocative, authentic narrative storytelling.

Season FIVE Episode FIVE of the Your Story Our Fight® podcast welcomes Shedrica Holmes. Shedrica is a lupus advocate, podcast host, and creator of the Chronically Planned platform. Diagnosed with lupus in 2008, she shares honest conversations around chronic illness, identity, faith, and rebuilding life through intentional planning. Through storytelling and guidance, Shedrica creates space for women living with lupus to feel seen, supported, and empowered to move forward at their own pace.