Up Close with Jeremy Wortzel '16
“It’s about trying to level the playing field. It’s making sure that every child has a healthy home to grow up in, and can go to school because he’s not suffering from mold in his home and asthma in his lungs. That’s the goal: making sure that every family, rich or poor, immigrant or not, has a safe and healthy home.”
When he’s not playing folk music at Hasbro hospital, leading outdoor education programs or working towards his degree in Environmental Toxicology, Jeremy Wortzel is fighting housing inequities with the Healthy Housing Hub at Brown. Since its genesis in 2012, the Hub has worked with over 62 students at seven universities to create wikihousing.org (coming soon!) - a website that houses over 900 pages of invaluable research for policy makers and civil servants interested in creating safe and healthy homes.