Return to Innovation for Impact Fund
2022: Community-driven Air Quality Advocacy in Manhattan Chinatown (EDF)
Despite the disproportionate pollution and death rate from COVID that East Asian immigrants experienced in NYC, they are among the least involved in environmental protection initiatives. Researchers will explore how cultural norms and tensions among Chinese immigrant sub-groups shape community advocacy in environmental protection efforts. They will conduct interviews and develop relevant messaging in multiple languages to be used as a basis for conversations around air quality issues in Chinatown and future outreach programs.
Cornell Investigator: Y. Connie Yuan, Communications and Global Development
EDF Investigator: Rainer Romero-Canyas
Other: Cindy Lin, Former Cornell Atkinson Postdoc (now at Penn State University)