Ernesto's+Project+Definition

-Data gathered from work while at LACEF -Interviews with stakeholders and organizations that are working on these issues throughout LA County -Youth Justice Coalition, CA Common Cause, and other orgs for data published -Visiting communities and identifying the industries present and environmental disparities -Identifying and developing sociodemographic analysis of these communities -Looking at the systems & governing bodies -Interview members of the community to gain understanding of their perceptions and misperceptions of environmental burdens that affect their health || -Would such an approach help further understand & develop solutions that can serve as best practice models for development? || Public Health Environmental Justice | Racism Social Justice Health Policy & Program Development Community Health ||
 * Topical Area? || An Intersectional Approach to Addressing Health Disparities in Inner City Communities (South & East Los Angeles County) ||
 * Data sets? || -Data gathered within The Asthma Files & Fracking Files Research
 * Social-Theoretical Questions? || -How does an intersectional approach to these societal disparities help provide new methods of approach that have not been explored?
 * Why now? || Many of these issues have been prevalent for some time and many of the programs that have been developed only “band-aid” the issues, not effectively or eradicating the issues prevalent in these communities. Also, inequalities among the different social strata are larger than before, and there are no signs of them closing. ||
 * How prepared? || Quite prepared actually. Many of the “solutions” devised to address these issues only provide for one angle approach and leave out or are not inclusive of other issues that contribute to this particular topic. Having explored numerous issues through numerous perspectives will provide me for new avenues of policy and program development. ||
 * Bias? || I am a product of such disparities that are prevalent in these communities, being the fact that I was born and raised in Compton, CA. I am very critical of outliers that come to these communities and fail to acknowledge or identify expert knowledge or those who do not make the members of these communities the focal point of the solutions. ||
 * Fields of work? || Environmental Health
 * Funders? || The California Endownment, California Environmental Protection Agency, The Children’s Defense Fund, LACEF, UCLA School of Public Health ||