This is Steffany and she has #asthma... • Steffany DeJesus '19 is a RIC alumna with a B.S. in #communityandpublichealth. As an asthma sufferer, she is inspired to do all she can to educate people about this repiratory problem – especially since it disproportionately impacts her community. "In Rhode Island, the overall number of children suffering with uncontrolled asthma is 12 percent, as of 2016. Hispanic children comprise eight percent of all those kids with asthma problems," explains DeJesus, who is originally from the Dominican Republic. "The two communities with the highest risk are children of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent." • Last year, DeJesus interned at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center, where she worked with Lifepan on research about asthma and health disparities in Rhode Island. The research project, "Asthma Management at Schools," was developed to administer an asthma self-management program/intervention targeting high rate Latino middle school children in...