Using Science as a Tool for Justice.
Bring Science to Your Community
We Use Science as a Tool for Justice
Bridging Community Experience and Institutional Decision-Making.
Featured projects
Baltimore 311 Data Analysis, 2025: Mapping Environmental Burden and Service Gaps
SC941: Community Oversight and Risk Mitigation in a $30 Million Infrastructure Project
SC941: Community Oversight and Risk Mitigation in a $30 Million Infrastructure Project
A citywide analysis of Baltimore’s 311 service request data examining patterns in rodent complaints, trash overflow, and sanitation-related calls. This project translates publicly available data into actionable insights, identifying neighborhood-level environmental burden and infrastructure responsiveness gaps to inform policy strategy, resource allocation, and community advocacy.
SC941: Community Oversight and Risk Mitigation in a $30 Million Infrastructure Project
SC941: Community Oversight and Risk Mitigation in a $30 Million Infrastructure Project
SC941: Community Oversight and Risk Mitigation in a $30 Million Infrastructure Project
A $30 million urban infrastructure project where data-driven advocacy and structured escalation improved safety protocols, communication systems, and environmental monitoring within a historically underinvested neighborhood.
Healing Urban Gardens (HUGs): Funded Community-Based Stress and Climate Resilience Intervention
Root East Baltimore Initiative: Funded Climate Resilience and Urban Tree Infrastructure Strategy
Root East Baltimore Initiative: Funded Climate Resilience and Urban Tree Infrastructure Strategy
A funded, community-designed green space initiative developed to reduce chronic stress, improve neighborhood well-being, and embed restorative environmental infrastructure within underinvested urban communities.
Root East Baltimore Initiative: Funded Climate Resilience and Urban Tree Infrastructure Strategy
Root East Baltimore Initiative: Funded Climate Resilience and Urban Tree Infrastructure Strategy
Root East Baltimore Initiative: Funded Climate Resilience and Urban Tree Infrastructure Strategy
A fully funded environmental justice initiative designed to install hundreds of street trees, reduce urban heat exposure, and convert underinvested corridors into long-term public health assets through structured green infrastructure planning.
What We Do — Real Impact for Real Communities
WHAT WE DO — REAL IMPACT FOR REAL COMMUNITIES
We provide research, data, and policy tools that help communities:
• Influence local and state decision-making
• Get funding and grants
• Build evidence for justice
• Advocate with confidence
• Strengthen resilience and wellbeing
Research That Protects
• Scientific feasibility & impact studies
• Equity & environmental health assessments
• Data analysis for community problem solving
Policy & Advocacy Support
Community Science & Engagement
• Plain-language reports
• Policy briefs & testimony preparation
• Rapid response research for hearings
Community Science & Engagement
Community Science & Engagement
Community Science & Engagement
• Outreach strategy & co-design
• Multicultural engagement campaigns
• Behavior change support grounded in science
Writing & Funding Success
Community Science & Engagement
Programatic Impact Analysis
• Grant proposals & editing
• Manuscripts & conference materials
• Newsletters & educational content
Programatic Impact Analysis
Community Science & Engagement
Programatic Impact Analysis
Detailed impact analysis to understand demonstrable or perceived benefits to individuals, groups, organizations and communities that are linked to a particular action, project or policy.
Let’s use science to strengthen your community.
Science in Action
Our work supports communities navigating issues such as:
• Health disparities
• Environmental justice
• Climate and heat vulnerability
• Chronic disease prevention
• Grant development and funding access
• Community-informed policy reform
We don’t just analyze problems — we help build solutions grounded in evidence and lived experience.
