At the end of February, our studio met with clients Khea Pollard (Jewish Family Service) and Jessica Barlow (the Sage Project) to discuss the upcoming program, Black Women’s Resilience Project (BWRP). BWRP is a new initiative that supports low-income Black women in San Diego, primarily through guaranteed income and other community-based resources. In the hopes […]
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In collaboration with the San Diego State University Sage Project, undergraduate student researchers contributed to the Black Women’s Resilience Project (BWRP) by conducting a qualitative research study in their Politics of Health Communication course (COMM 422). The goal of this study was to identify the connections between the guaranteed income (GI) initiative and health among […]
Khea Pollard, CEO of Cafe X: as well as the creative mastermind for the Black Women’s Resilience Project has dedicated her career to supporting and advocating for communities of color in her residing city of San Diego. Cafe X serves as a hub and according to Khea: “It’s more than just coffee, it’s a movement […]
According to Moslimani et al. (2024), underpinned by the US Census microdata from 2022, the Black population of the US is growing, from 36.2 million self-identified Black people in 2000 to an estimated 47.9 million people in 2022; this is an increase of 32% in two decades, making up 14.4% of the country’s current population. […]
With support from the Sage Project at San Diego State University and in collaboration with the Black Women’s Resilience Project (BWRP) and Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFSSD), student researchers created a community needs assessment to collect information about the struggles of single Black mothers who live in the health equity zip codes established […]
In collaboration with the Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFSSD) and under the guidance of the Sage Project, student researchers at San Diego State University collected existing data to aid the launch of the Black Women’s Resilience Project (BWRP)—a new initiative being launched by the JFSSD to support Black women living in San Diego. […]