Gender-Affirming Care: A Battleground for Health Equity and Bodily Autonomy

In the past few years, LGBTQ+ people (particularly trans people) have become targets for hateful, dehumanizing rhetoric. Along with this increasing hostility has come a barrage of legislative attempts to strip LGBTQ+ people of our rights and protections against discrimination. Since 2024, over 500 bills have been introduced at the state level that target LGBTQ+ populations and many are specifically aimed at reducing access to or criminalizing gender-affirming care, particularly for youth...

Community Safety, LGBTQ+, HealthcareGuest UserSeptember 20, 2024Blog

Reflecting on 30 Years of the National Academy of Science’s Food Forum: Extending the Goal towards Equity

Let’s expand the algorithm of scientific progress in food security, food systems, and nutrition and health to include the health outcomes of all our communities and let’s use this data to guide new research and resource investments.

Food SystemsXavier MoralesJanuary 3, 2024Blog

Advancing Prosperity & Racial Equity in Rural Communities

The Praxis Project has partnered with ChangeLab Solutions on two policy briefs designed to aid policymakers, changemakers, local leaders, and organizers explore strategies to advance economic prosperity and racial equity in our rural communities.

Civic ParticipationGuest UserAugust 1, 2023Blog

Our Statement on the Ruling to End Affirmative Action

In response to the SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action, we pledge to continue our work to break down barriers, focusing our efforts on building local power through initiatives that advance our democracy.

Education SystemGuest UserJune 29, 2023Blog

Critical Futures, "Health as a Human Right: Power Building for Community-Driven Change"

Xavier Morels appeared on the Cricial Futures podcast to talk about the importance of community power-building, the role of partner organizations, and the work that must be done across the country to create more equitable health outcomes for all communities.

HealthcareGuest UserMay 2, 2023Blog

California appellate court rules ban on local sugary drink taxes unconstitutional

Civic Participation, Food SystemsPraxis MediaApril 18, 2023Blog

Communities of Praxis Policies by Social Determinants of Health 2022

Parenthood Behind Bars: The Reality of Childbirth in Prisons

Valued Cultures & Identities, Reproductive Life, Criminal Legal SystemGuest UserSeptember 20, 2022Blog

The Fight for Rights: Shifts in Reproductive Justice Organizing after Dobbs

Reproductive Life, Healthcare, Valued Cultures & IdentitiesGuest UserSeptember 20, 2022Blog

Building Community Power to Achieve Health and Racial Equity: Principles to Guide Transformative Partnerships with Local Communities

This new article from The National Academic of Medicine Commentary co-authored by Praxis ED, Xavier Morales, shares how building community power is essential to achieving health and racial equity.

Guest UserJune 14, 2022Blog

Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice

Food Systems, Hope and Efficacy, Physical Environment - Water Air & Soil, Valued Cultures & Identity, Environmental JusticeGuest UserMarch 14, 2022Blog

Reproductive Justice: A holistic Approach to Reproductive Freedom

Reproductive Life, Connections with Neighbors, Community InfrastructureGuest UserAugust 19, 2021Blog

Collective Grief and Community Care in a State-Fueled Crisis

Community Safety, Connections with Neighbors, Valued Cultures & IdentitiesPraxis MediaAugust 19, 2021Blog

Transforming Community Safety: Looking Beyond Reforms

I began my 2020 summer internship at The Praxis Project in the wake of mass mobilizations across the country and around the world demanding structural change and justice for the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and so many more…

Community Safety, Criminal Legal System, Socioeconomic ConditionsKourtney NhamSeptember 3, 2020Blog

Bet on Organic Public Health

The truth of the matter is that the job of redefining public health and bridging the gap between organic and traditional public health must fall on the shoulders of public health practitioners and advocates. WE are the publicists responsible for communicating public health and its importance to the general public as well as defining it for future generations.

Julian JohnsonAugust 17, 2020Blog

Changing the Face

Public health is still in need of a publicist. We are already aware that, pre-COVID 19, the general public perception around agencies like the CDC, Department of Health & Human Services, and state/local health departments was negative. Thus, I am calling for public health to be redefined and expanded; we must “change the face.”

Pepsico’s $7 Million Donation in Communities of Color for COVID-19 Relief: Paying for a Health Halo to Hide the Devil’s Fork?

Marketing & Retail Environment, SSB, Food SystemsXavier MoralesJuly 22, 2020Blog

Public Health Needs a New Publicist

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing the general public put U.S. public health institutions under the microscope with intense scrutiny—and, in my perspective, rightfully so.

HealthcareJulian JohnsonJuly 22, 2020Blog