“We can have store shelves stocked with as many “healthy items” as possible but if we are not also addressing how spaces feel for people, we’re not addressing root causes at all…

That kind of emphasis on healthy food is really a shortcoming, and just to be real, it’s violent and can be dismissive of lived experiences…”

From https://www.nayajones.com: Dr. Naya Jones is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and core faculty in Global and Community Health at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is also a national Culture of Health Leader (2017-2020), reimagining health with a cohort of community builders from around the United States. Much of Naya’s work focuses on spatial justice and sovereignty: she’s interested in how BIPOC* and historically-oppressed communities worldwide “do for themselves.” She especially studies + lifts up embodied Black geographies of collective healing, environment, and resilience in North and Latin America.

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