Intersectional Issues of Health and Poverty

Coming from Boulder - a hub of health and wellness companies - our team knows that we have a heavily biased perspective on the availability of fresh and healthy food options. The heart of our project is understanding how poverty impacts communities to have less accessibility to healthy food. The passion of learning about this intersectionality and correlation caused us to develop our vision statement:

We strive to gain insight into the New Orleans community engagement efforts aimed at combating our nation’s childhood obesity/malnutrition epidemic considering the factors of accessibility, affordability, and awareness.

In order to gain more insight into this prevalent national issue, our team has been reading some insightful articles about the topic. We highly recommend starting with the following articles if you're interested in this area as well:

NPR's article "Tackling Obesity Amid Poverty in a Miss. County"

Food Tank's article "A Healthier Debate is the Key to Healthier Food Systems"

Oxfam America's article "A Wake-Up Call on Hunger and Malnutrition"

Blog Post by Alice Haugland