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Racially minoritized and marginalized communities are on the frontlines of climate change, experiencing climate impacts “first and worst.” As climate change fuels climate disasters and extreme weather events, it’s now more urgent than ever to understand how we can reduce these harms to health and wellbeing and shift policy and responses toward justice. Hang’s research seeks to accomplish this by applying an intersectional lens to examine how climate variability and change, including extreme weather events, interact with overlapping structural injustices such as poverty, disability, language injustice, and houselessness to affect the health and wellbeing of im/migrants, refugees and other frontline communities. Through a community science approach, Hang aims to bridge research with community action and identify climate adaptation and disaster risk-reduction strategies effective for reducing vulnerability, building community resilience, and addressing persistent inequities.
MORE ABOUT HANG
Hang and her family were resettled in the U.S. through the Amerasian Homecoming Act. Having grown up in a low-income Vietnamese immigrant and refugee community, Hang is deeply aware of the unequal impacts of extreme weather events. These experiences motivate her work with communities and research at the intersection of climate, health, and justice.
