A participatory and community-engaged initiative that encourages youth, formerly incarcerated people, and community organizers to reimagine the built environment through the lens of justice, equity, and inclusion.

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A podcast and event series based in New Orleans, Louisiana, bringing listeners into the interior lives of the talented creatives who shape the culture of the city through interviews and artist talks.

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An ongoing series of workshops, facilitated virtually and in local gardens, designed to inform and strengthen our connections to the natural world and to each other through Black American spiritual and creative traditions.

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Developed and managed the inaugural cohort of the LACaTS Community Scholars Program, with the goal of facilitating and increasing the capacity of community-academic partnerships to conduct community engaged research, ensuring mutual ownership of the processes and products. The program aligns academic research and community priorities, creating actionable outcomes.

A coalition of researchers and non-traditional partners conducting health assessments, policy recommendations, reports, and community outreach to build consensus among community members and legislators for a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance protecting public spaces from secondhand smoke.

Co-designer, interviewer, and co-author in the PEARL study, which sought to understand patient perceptions of the emergency department/urgent care (ED/UC) HIV diagnosis experience as well as factors that may promote or discourage linkage to HIV care.

Research assistant and interviewer for the Health of Philadelphia Photo-documentation Project, led by epidemiologist Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD. The project conducted participatory visual epidemiology utilizing photovoice, photo-elicitation, interviews, and participant observation to record the health priorities and concerns of Philadelphia residents.

Creative curriculum featuring facilitated workshops in public classrooms that combined instruction in music, writing, and history. Jazz musicians and poets conduct workshops in middle school humanities classrooms to unlock the proud history of jazz from a social, historical, and creative perspective.