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Community Talks: Results and Recommendations for Health Equity from the Central Coast

Corazón del Pueblo
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Mixteco Interpretation Available at    • La Gente Unida - Latinx Immigrants and Ind...   On April 17, 2021 we kicked off our Community Talks series with Mario Espinoza-Kulick, PhD Candidate and Health Policy Research Scholar. Mario Alberto Viveros Espinoza-Kulick is an advocate, community leader, health equity expert, poet, and author. Mario was born in Modesto, California and raised between the Central Valley and the Central Cost. He currently lives in Santa Maria and has family ties in Guadalupe, Grover Beach, and to the Purépecha in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2016. He went on to earn his MA in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018, and will receive his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara this spring in June 2021. During his graduate work, Mario trained as a Health Policy Research Sc …...more
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Community Talks: Results and Recommendations for Health Equity from the Central Coast
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Mixteco Interpretation Available at    • La Gente Unida - Latinx Immigrants and Ind...   On April 17, 2021 we kicked off our Community Talks series with Mario Espinoza-Kulick, PhD Candidate and Health Policy Research Scholar. Mario Alberto Viveros Espinoza-Kulick is an advocate, community leader, health equity expert, poet, and author. Mario was born in Modesto, California and raised between the Central Valley and the Central Cost. He currently lives in Santa Maria and has family ties in Guadalupe, Grover Beach, and to the Purépecha in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2016. He went on to earn his MA in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018, and will receive his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara this spring in June 2021. During his graduate work, Mario trained as a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to translate research and scholarship into equitable policy change. His work has appeared in academic venues like Oxford University Press, the Carnegie Education Blog at Leeds Beckett University, and regional newspapers like El Latino, Santa Maria Times, and the Santa Barbara Independent. Mario continues to work in the community as the Health Equity Policy Manager for Future Leaders of America, and he serves on the Board as Secretary and Arts for the People Chair for Corazón del Pueblo: The Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley, and as Board Member for Access Support Network, an organization serving HIV and HCV affected communities in San Luis Obipso and Monterey counties. For more information about Corazón del Pueblo and to sign up for our newsletter, visit us at www.corazondelpueblo.org You can learn more about opportunities for consulting and coaching at www.queerprofs.com You can learn more about the project and findings from this study on https://lagenteunidacc.wixsite.com/re... You can learn more about Herencia Indígena and get in touch at https://www.herenciaindigena.com To support more events like this in the Santa Maria Valley, please support us today with a tax-deductible donation. Every amount helps! https://tinyurl.com/DonateCDP or by mail at 124 W. Main St., Suite E, Santa Maria, CA 93458

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Corazón del Pueblo

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