Hey, y'all. This is Naomi Fields and welcome back to another episode of the anti-racism and medicine series of the Clinical Problemsolvers podcast.

As always, our goal in this podcast is to equip our listeners at all levels of training

with the consciousness and tools to practice anti-racism in their health professions careers.

This episode is entitled, Race, Place, and Health, Clinician and Community Perspectives.

Today, we're focusing on how racism manifests in the built environment

and how community as well as individual level efforts can redress these inequities. This is the

second of three episodes interrogating relationships between race, place, housing, and health. And we're so

excited to get a window into how our guests do the community building work that they do and how these efforts can help us better understand solutions to the problems we see clinically.

I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting this episode with the incredible Lash Nolan.

Hey Lash, can you introduce our guests?

Hey, Naomi.

It's great to be here with you.

I'm so excited about this episode and our phenomenal guests.

First up, we have Noel Warford, who is the executive director of Urban Tree Connection,

a grassroots organization in West Philadelphia that uses land-based strategies and urban agriculture as tools for fostering community leadership and power. Noel was raised in Youngston, Ohio, in a predominantly black

working class community. As the first member of her family to attend a four-year university,

she received her BA in Women's and Black Studies from Denison University.

Through her studies and travels abroad, Noelle developed an analysis of structural inequities

that drives her professional work in life. In 2007, Noelle moved to Philadelphia to obtain

her master's and social work from the University of Pennsylvania. Over the last decade,

Noel has worked in the nonprofit sector with a focus on program development, data, and evaluation,

fundraising, teaching, and curriculum development, strategic planning, and organizational development and governance.

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