Flint Community Engagement Project

In the summer of 2017, I initiated a community-based research project in Flint, Michigan, focused on better understanding and contextualizing the technical, social, and political antecedents of the Flint Water Crisis and local perceptions around the genesis and response to the crisis. As part of the Flint Community Engagement Project (which formed the basis of my doctoral dissertation, completed in 2020), I conducted oral histories, in-depth interviews, and surveys with residents and held a wide range of qualitative discussions with professional stakeholders in Flint. You can learn more about the project at www.flintstudy.com. My dissertation committee members were Dr. Kristen Schilt (University of Chicago, Sociology), Dr. Anna Mueller (Indiana University, Sociology), and Dr. Bruce Link (UC Riverside, Sociology/Columbia University, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Sociomedical Sciences). While the project was still in progress, I presented research from this project at the 2019 National Environmental Justice Conference in Washington, D.C.