Unchartered Waters

Meet Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine—computer scientist turned head of state. Since 2000, she has led the Gullah/Geechee Nation, a group of more than one million inhabitants on the southeastern shores of the United States. She sat down with Editor-in-Chief Regina Hoffman to discuss life on the Sea Islands, strategies to improve care for minority patients, and how one Gullah/Geechee native launched a national movement to defend workers’ rights—and why you have never heard about it.