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Dr. Anjali Niyogi completed her MD/MPH from Tulane University School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is a Hospitalist at University Hospital where she teaches medical students and residents. Dr. Niyogi serves as an adjunct professor at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine where she teaches topics in Health and Human Rights.Dr. Niyogi has continued her work in global health with clinical and educational experience in Ghana, Uganda, Jamaica, Ethiopia and most recently with Central American refugees in Mexico and Syrian, Iraqi, and Afghani refugees in Greece. Dr. Niyogi is one of the founders and co-directors of the Resident Initiative in Global Health at Tulane. In 2015, Dr. Niyogi founded the Formerly Incarcerated Transitions (FIT) Clinic, which provides continuity of care for acute and chronic medical conditions to persons recently released from incarceration. She is a trained member of the Physicians Human Rights' (PHR) Asylum Network and conducts evaluations for asylum seekers in Louisiana. She is co-founder of the Forensic Asylum Clinic in New Orleans.

Anne Rolfes began her career in Nigeria, collaborating with local communities to address oil companies’ destruction of the Niger Delta. She returned to Louisiana in 2000 and collaborated with women along Cancer Alley to found the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Anne was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana where many people made their fortunes from the oil industry. She has seen the wealth and the poverty created by oil production and seeks a phase out of fossil fuels in her lifetime.

Dr. Susan Clayton is a Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology and chair of Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. Her PhD, in social psychology, is from Yale University. Dr. Clayton is a lead author in the major scientific report released on 28 February, 2022 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of experts convened by the United Nations. Dr. Clayton was a lead author of the chapter titled, “Health, Wellbeing, and the Changing Structure of Communities”. Dr. Clayton explores the connections between people and nature. You can find the report here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/

Vickie Boothe who is an epidemiologist and environmental engineer with more than 33 years of public service. Vickie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor’s Degree in Management/Marketing, and a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Georgia State University. She is dedicated to improving community health and advancing health equity.  She spent 19 years at the CDC and 14 years at the EPA. In 2019, after retiring from the federal government, she relocated to New Orleans in order to more actively engage and support disparately impacted communities across Louisiana. Her research focuses on health impacts resulting from exposures to traffic emissions and other air pollutants; understanding the role of social determinants in creating community health and health disparities; and evaluating public health and environmental interventions, programs, and policies.

Dr. Melanie Yazzie is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota (starting in the fall of 2022) and coauthor of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation and The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save the Earth, both of which came out in 2021. She specializes in Navajo/American Indian history, political ecology, Indigenous feminisms, queer Indigenous studies, and theories of policing and the state. She also organizes with The Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism. 

Cyndhia Ramatchandirane joined Earthjustice in 2020 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her role as staff scientist on the Fossil Fuels team involves supporting the diverse communities impacted by the oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout along the Louisiana/Texas Gulf coast and in the Ohio River Valley. Cyndhia investigates the associated pollution impacts on climate, the environment, and public health from these infrastructure projects. She assists with litigation and also collaborates with scientists and local environmental and community groups to fight these climate and environmental justice issues. LINKS: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_promise_of_community_driven_science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00861-7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJIWWbdhLk Abdulrahman Jbaily et al., Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income groups, 601 Nature 228–233 (2022). Jiawen Liu et al., Disparities in air pollution exposure in the United States by race/ethnicity and income, 1990–2010, 129 Environ Health Perspect 127005 (2021). Jonathan I Levy, Invited perspective: Moving from characterizing to addressing racial/ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure, Environmental Health Perspectives 2 (2021). https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-created-the-most-detailed-map-ever-of-cancer-causing-industrial-air-pollution https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/ https://www.propublica.org/article/can-air-pollution-cause-cancer-risks

Jo Banner is the cofounder with her twin sister, Joy Banner, of the Descendants Project. An emerging organization committed to the intergenerational healing and flourishing of the Black descendant community in the Louisiana river parishes.The lands of the river parishes hold the intersecting histories of enslavement, settler colonialism, and environmental degradation. The Descendants Project is committed to reversing the vagaries of slavery through healing and restorative work. They aim to eliminate the narrative violence of plantation tourism and champion the voice of the Black descendant community while demanding action that supports the total well-being of Black descendants.ig:@ thedescendantsproject

Dr. David Puder went to U.C. Berkeley and competed on the Cal Rowing Team. Afterwards, he attended Loma Linda School of Medicine and subsequently spent a year doing internal medicine, then completed his psychiatry residency at Loma Linda where he later joined the faculty. Dr. Puder looks holistically at diet, exercise, lifestyle, traditional psychiatric medication needs, and also psychotherapy needs when working with his patients. He was been awarded "Outstanding Teaching Resident in Psychiatry Award" in recognition of your excellence and enthusiasm in the teaching of medical students."  He hosts a podcast called Psychiatry and Psychotherapy podcast. Dr. Puder is married with two children and spends most of his free time playing with them or cooking for them. Dr. Puder is also helping our podcast and we are unbelievably grateful for his support.

Dr. Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, is a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation and has worked with various Indigenous patients and communities around the globe helping to bridge the gap between Indigenous traditional and modern medical systems. She is co-founder and chair of the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation based in the Canadian North. Dr. Redvers is currently an assistant professor in both the Department of Family & Community Medicine and the Department of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota where she has helped co-develop the first Indigenous Health PhD degree program in North America. She has been actively involved at the international level promoting the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in planetary health and education for sustainable health care. Dr. Redvers recently published the trade paperback, The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles. Twitter handle: @DrNicoleRedvers

Mr. Darryl Malek-Wiley works as an Environmental Justice Organizer for the Sierra Club in Louisiana working with community groups on environmental problems and their possible solutions. He has worked on public policy and environmental issues since 1972, when he first joined the Sierra Club. Propublica ir pollution map: https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/ https://web.doh.state.nj.us/rtkhsfs/indexfs.aspx LEAVE A REVIEW: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-is-healthy/id1537453361?uo=4