How and Why I Became a Bahá'í
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 Published On Mar 11, 2024

Talk given by Dr. Steven Gottlieb on March 2, 2024.

Steven Gottlieb works as a pediatrician at the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, and speaks Spanish with many of his clients. He received his master’s degree in public health from UCLA and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He served as a Medical Officer for the National Health Service Corps, and as a physician in Puerto Rico for 11 years, where he assisted with a
variety of programs, including School Health, Pregnant Adolescents, an albinism research study, and the Special Olympics. He has undertaken several medical missions to Panama and Honduras, and was honored by the Yakima Herald-Republic with their “Unsung Hero” community service
award.
Dr. Gottlieb spent 11 years in Puerto Rico as a Bahá'í pioneer; has undertaken multiple travel teaching trips to Central and South America; has served on several Local Spiritual Assemblies; and has hosted many three-day intensive children’s retreats at his home in Yakima, WA. He is co-
editor of Once to Every Man and Nation: Stories about Becoming a Bahá'í (George Ronald Pub: 1985); has taught numerous classes for children, youth and adults; and is currently working on a book of Bible themes.
He and his wife organized youth service projects to the Ngabe-Bugle Indian homeland in northwestern Panama, and helped establish a solar-powered computer lab at the middle/high school on the reservation, a rural pilot project funded by Microsoft Panama. Hobbies and interests include pickleball, photography, nutrition science, and Montessori education.

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0:00:00 - Opening Reading
0:01:34 - Introduction
0:03:16 - Talk
0:39:20 - Q/A
1:09:02 - Closing

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