Hi everyone my name is Joyce.
I am a first year MPH student in EHS.
My name is Alein Haro.
I am a second year MPH student in the department
of Community Health Sciences.
My name is Karen Chan and I am a second year
MPH student, hopefully graduating in 2018.
My name is Kyra Huete.
I am a dual degree student in social work
and public health.
Hi my name is James.
I am a second year dual masters student inpublic health in community health sciences
and a MA student in Asian American Studies.
I am currently with The Wall Las Memorias
Project, a non-profit in Highland Park that
serves Latino, LGBT, and underserved communities.
I worked at Peace Over Violence, which is
a violence prevention and intervention agency
that works to create healthy relationships,
healthy families, and healthy communities
free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal
violence.
I have been interning at Community Health
Councils, which is a non-profit in South LA.
A lot of the work that we do is around the
social determinants of health and making sure
that communities that are underserved have
the resources to be healthy such as not only
having insurance but also having a doctor
who speaks the language of the community and
is knowledgeable of the culture.
I am an intern at the Los Angeles Alliance
for a New Economy currently, specifically
I am working in their Don’t Waste Long Beach
campaign and we’re there to really advocate
for more recycling, better jobs, and a better
environment.
Before I started my internship I didn’t
really have a concrete sense of how you could
go about doing advocacy work, but from engaging
in a few projects and seeing different strategies
it’s really changed my mind about what I
want to do after I get my master’s.
The connection between advocacy and public
health is the two are intertwined and integral
to one another.
Advocacy means three things: taking action,
making a change, and making an impact.
I see advocacy as a way for communities and
individuals to uplift folks and to improve
their health to actually make actionable change.
The most challenging aspect of advocacy work
is definitely being patient and have to wait
on responses and have to navigate certain
policy makers’ offices, and learn how to
communicate with staff members.
That’s kind of been, you know, the hard
part, waiting and seeing what the responses
are and learning to work with others.
A rewarding aspect of advocacy work is creating
a voice for people who don’t have the means
to create a voice.
It’s having the ability to create, reimagine
our world, rather than just react to the problem
in front of us.
I am a public health advocate.
I am a public health advocate.
I am a public health advocate.
I am a public health advocate.
