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What happens when where you live determines how long you live? When a full-time paycheck still doesn’t cover the basics? When the cost of being poor—or being Black—comes with hidden fees that erode both health and wealth?
In this powerful series opener of Questions You Didn’t Ask Season 4, host Niasha Fray sits down with two changemakers at the intersection of equity, policy, and community impact:
- Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards — Associate Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Co-Director of the CTSI Center for Equity in Research, and Associate Director of Research at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity. Her groundbreaking work examines how structural racism, culture, and gender shape health and education outcomes.
- Farad Ali — Executive leader, ...
Keywords
health equityeconomic justiceeconomic mobilitySocial determinants of healthracial wealth gapBlack taxpoverty taxcommunity developmentgenerational wealth