Proposed a new approach to addressing park and green space inequities and launched a groundbreaking national initiative

In partnership with Dr. Alessandro Rigolon of the University of Utah, we authored Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power. It includes lessons learned from other public health movements that can benefit the park equity movement as well as examples of promising green space equity policies. In the paper, we prioritize power building among people closest to park and green space inequities so that community residents drive policy and systems change solutions. In follow-up, we launched People, Parks, and Power (People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice), a joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, led and managed by Prevention Institute. People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice represents a twelve-million-dollar investment in support of community-based organizations and base-building groups working in urban, low-income communities of color across the United States to increase park equity through local policy and systems change. We look forward to sharing more as this work moves into implementation. Changing the Landscape was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Photo by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.