Andrea Rayas: Innovating Housing for Second-Hand Smoke

In this episode, Non-Profit Worker and School of Public Policy Alum Andrea Rayas talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about Community Work with Second-Hand Smoke in Multifamily Housing Units. 

Podcast Highlights: 

“Research has shown that African American and Latinx communities are most affected by it, especially children.” 

-Andrea on the topic of second-hand smoke and the communities most impacted by it. 

“We work with a  community who are constantly working, who are not politically involved at all...we think it's important to also provide training or capacity building for them...encouraging them to make public comments, empowering them to attend meetings...” 

-Andrea on the challenges of working with community members and how to empower them. 

“The way they can get involved is by addressing it to their other peers, neighbors, landlords, property management, attending meetings [and expressing their concerns]” 

-Andrea on the topic of student involvement in addressing second-hand smoke.

Guest: 

Andrea Rayas (Non-Profit Worker) 

Interviewers: 

Dinara Godage (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Ambassador) 

Andrew Shannon (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Ambassador) 

Music by: C Codaine 

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Minimal_1625

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase 

Commercial Link: https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp 

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