Through a grassroots effort, Fielding School graduates have empowered the low-wage, Vietnamese immigrant-dominated nail salon workforce to fight for healthier conditions.
Whether working with families to better manage their children’s asthma or helping residents take on an oil plant leaking toxins within walking distance of their homes, Fielding School alumna Ashley Kissinger assists a disenfranchised population in finding its voice.
Just in case you weren’t sure whether housing is a public health issue, spend a few moments talking with Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, MPH ’93, about the work of the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation and any lingering doubts will disappear.
These Fielding School alumni have spent the last 16 years tending to the health needs of the remote Hoopa Valley Reservation in rural Northern California, but the public health challenges they've encountered are unlike those faced by most of their former classmates.
Elaine Batchlor, MPH ’90 who is helping to lead construction of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital as CEO, says that the new facility will go far to fill a void in the South Los Angeles community.
