Dr. Forbes's scholarship introduces new ways to understand and contest racial segregation. It also posits that Black-led farms function as a survival and liberation mechanism within divested racialized communities. Dr. Forbes recently submitted a grant to improve Black maternal and pregnancy outcomes through a culturally-specific nutrition education and peer-support program. This study is supported by an emergent local food system through Black women-led farmer cooperative and a grassroots community advisory board representing low-income neighborhoods. Dr. Forbes is also supporting this work through a class survey and asset mapping project in partnership with these organizations. In addition, she supports local efforts to design and embed child trauma-prevention within Cincinnati city policies and is working with colleagues in Portland, OR to launch an afterschool program to train marginalized high school youth in public health research and policy advocacy.