Professor Tekisha Everette’s core passion is looking at ways in which U.S. policies are racialized and addressing their disproportionate impacts on the lives of minoritized individuals. Her path towards this passion began long before her professorship at the Yale School of Public Health, her six years leading the nonprofit Health Equity Solutions, and even her time in Washington, D.C. lobbying for state and federal health care policy at the intersections of race, class, and gender. It began in her childhood home, a space provided by her parents that fed her literally and intellectually. “My biggest heroes, if I could meet anyone living or dead, would be Sandra Day O’Connor, Thurgood Marshall, Barbara Jordan – and my mom,” said Everette, Ph.D. “Those are the people who drove me into social justice and taught me to see the world through that lens.” As a member on Connecticut’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group, Everette emphasizes measuring the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on B...