Home Truths
February 22, 2024
Hsun-Ta Hsu combines machine learning with data and community feedback to determine better housing solutions for homeless populations across the United States.
Social Work
All in the Family
September 19, 2023
Ramona Denby-Brinson has spent the last 30 years keeping children out of the foster system and in the homes of relatives.
Healing with Art
May 22, 2023
Denise “Dee” Yookong Williams uses art to help LGBTQ youth and youth of color process their experiences around suicide.
RUNC: Anderson Al Wazni
April 5, 2023
Anderson Al Wazni strives to help communities hit by climate change.
RUNC: Trenette Goings
November 30, 2022
Trenette Goings believes effective prevention can eliminate addiction.
Roots of Afro-Latin Rhythms
April 14, 2022
In each episode of the Mix(ed)tape Podcast, researchers Melissa Villodas and Andrés Hincapié speak to Black dancers, choreographers, musicians, and academics about the roots of various Afro-Latin rhythms, the role of dance and music in identity formation, and how racism manifests in the Afro-Latin dance scene.
Rainier Masa
October 13, 2021
Rainier Masa is an assistant professor in the UNC School of Social Work. He studies the intersection of socioeconomic precarity, stigma, and HIV in adolescents and young adults.
Terence Johnson
October 21, 2020
Terence Johnson is a PhD student in the UNC School of Social Work and a student assistant in the Department of Social Medicine within the UNC School of Medicine. He researches how to create equity within the criminal justice system.
Helping the Hardest Hit
September 22, 2020
While the novel coronavirus has affected us all, it has drastically changed the lives of specific groups of people, from rural populations to long-term care residents to communities of color. Startling statistics among these groups have pushed UNC researchers from a variety of disciplines into action.