On September 1 I joined Rainbow Research as the new Executive Director. After a long-lived experience of organizing, teaching, facilitation, and research at the intersections of many social justice issues, I discerned that landing at Rainbow would provide with me a fabulous capstone project for my career.

Excited to share this article published at Youth Today co-written by Tsunami Douglas-Webb, Katie Fritz Fogel, Robyn Hanson, Alecia Mattison, Brianna Phillips and Blue S-S sharing our reflections on a recent youth participatory evaluation of a menthol tobacco policy aimed at changing youth tobacco access in two cities in Minnesota.

As the long term evaluation partner of Minnesota Department of Health Center for Health Equity, Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative, we were excited to author this report in an effort to amplify the powerful work of EHDI grantees