How did you become interested in structural racism and health? If I had to identify a catalyst that first sent me on this research trajectory, I would probably point to my early years as a touring musician. Traveling around the United States directly exposed me to many of the harsh realities of institutionalized segregation and concentrated disadvantage, pollution, and violence within minoritized communities.
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What is your area of research or expertise that you bring to the Landscapes collaboration? I contribute to some of the trouble-making towards our methodological approaches—essentially challenging and refining our methods.
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What do you find challenging or exciting about interdisciplinary collaboration? Working on interdisciplinary projects also broadens my understanding of how other people understand and tell the story from the data.
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What’s one common misconception about your area of research that you’d like to dispel? We’re diving into sampling, doing database gymnastics, debugging collection processes… It’s like we’re wearing multiple hats, from engineering to social science and even user experience testing.
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What’s the academic path that brought you to where you are now? Seeking and insisting that social justice and multiculturalism were at the core of all of my academic and professional pursuits.
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What’s one common misconception about your area of research that you’d like to dispel? This research is about going deeper and combining a wealth of knowledge to understand and identify the root of the population health disparities we already know about.
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