Lynette Charity, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist with over forty years’ wort of experience “putting people to sleep.” After growing up in the segregated South, she graduated with honors from Chatham College for Women, PA, then earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She has practiced nationally and internationally, and as a US Army doctor, achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel. Also, a keynote speaker, humorist and author. Now a septuagenarian living in Gilbert, Arizona, her mission is to help others go after their dreams through sharing her story of overcoming obstacles of racial bias, gender bias, and age bias.