From the Ground Up: Community-Based Participatory Research Reclaiming the Science of Lead

This article examines two community–academic research partnerships addressing lead contamination in urban environments, showing how community-based participatory research reframes lead poisoning as an environmental justice issue and reshapes research agendas, policy debates, and community organizing.

April 2025 · Juan Manuel Rubio, Bavisha Kaylan, Anthony Diaz, Patricia Flores, Maya Cheav, David C. Bañuelas, Ashley Green, Annika Hjelmstad, Ariane Jong-Levinger, Tim Schütz, Maya Carrasquillo, Alana M. W. LeBrón, Jun Wu

EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge

A collaborative project with UC Irvine students and Orange County Environmental Justice that produced two award-winning videos for the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge.

May 2023 · Tim Schütz, Annika Hjelmstad, Ariane Jong-Levinger, Ashley Green, Alexis Guerra, Caroline Nguyen, David Christopher Banuelas