For the past two years, the registered dental assistant has been running Delta Dental’s Dental Professional Pathways program, with the goal of introducing young members of historically marginalized communities to the dental profession. The work brought Lolinda Turner, current program manager for Dental Workforce Diversity, to Spokane last month, as she met with young people at the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center and the Next Generation Zone, a career training center for 16- to 24-year-olds in downtown Spokane.