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Addressing Injustice in the Built Environment: A Community-Based Approach to Reducing Health Disparities

February 19 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

SMC E117

This event is open to the public.

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Summary: 

Americans now spend as much as 90% of our time indoors within our built environment including homes, workplaces, and transportation systems. Our physical infrastructure significantly impacts our health, and communities of color face disproportionately high levels of environmental contamination as a direct result of systemic racist policies. Danika will describe three examples of how this contamination still pervades in the built environment through an environmental justice lens: childhood lead poisoning, indoor air quality, and vapor intrusion. 

 
Bio:

Danika Hill-Paulus is a 2014 Knox Alumnus. She continued her education with an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Idaho, where she researched the transport of agricultural chemicals through the soil. Since 2018, her work has focused on reducing health disparities in communities of color in Milwaukee, WI. Danika currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of MKE FreshAir Collective, an environmental justice non-profit, where she oversees the indoor air quality initiative.