Expertise
- Grassroots Policy Advocacy
- Health Disparities and Access to Healthy Foods
- National Infrustructure Investments
- California Policy Trends
Education
University of California–Santa Cruz, B.A., American studies and biology
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Master of Public Administration
Experience |
Experience
A noted policy advocate on a variety of equity issues, Ms. Bell works with community leaders and state and national partners to advance change at the local, state, and national levels. She also conducts advocacy trainings and workshops across the country to bring low-income communities into the policy process. Ms. Bell is an authority on innovative strategies and policies that increase access to healthy foods and reduce environmental health impacts on low-income communities.
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Selected Articles, Publications, and Media Appearances
Why Place Matters: Building the Movement for Healthy Communities, PolicyLink, 2007.
Expanding Opportunity: New Resources to Meet California’s Housing Needs, PolicyLink, 2005.
The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America, edited by Xavier de Souza Briggs (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). Chapter title: “Equitable Development for a Stronger Nation: Lessons from the Field.”
“Learning to Lobby: Steps to Successful Legislative Advocacy,” Race, Poverty & the Environment: A Journal for Social and Environmental Justice, Urban Habitat, 2003.
“Communities and Health Policy: A Pathway for Change,” (with Marion Standish) Health Affairs 24, no. 2 (March/April 2005).
“Prosperity’s Potholes: How Lack of Public Transit Investment Forces More Suburban Families to Struggle,” San Francisco Chronicle, Op-ed, December 27, 2006.
The Morning Show, KPFA, November 20, 2006.
“Housing Plan Benefits Area, Its Families,” (with Robert Hoo), Sacramento Bee, Op-ed, February 23, 2005. |
