- Royce Fellowship
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Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Morello-Frosch
As a Royce Fellow, Ruth Lindberg researched lead poisoning prevention from the landlord perspective, focusing on barriers landlords face in making their properties safe for young children, as well as highlighting opportunities to incentivize landlords to improve their properties. This work inspired her senior thesis and led to her first employment opportunity at the Rhode Island Department of Health. There, Ruth became increasingly aware of the disproportionate impact of these health issues on low-income communities and communities of color, and began to understand that her work in public health was incomplete without a focus on the underlying issues of poverty, affordable housing, and social justice.