How Do We Get Well? On Public Health and Safety

Granger came up in Cleveland, Ohio, alongside his mother, Sandra, inheriting both her love of soul music and habit of apologizing too much. A 2017 residency artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Granger uses his work to reconcile his position as an individual shaped by and existing in American history, its media, and all of its associated violence. His recent projects include “Ten Toes Down” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Pearl, a body of collaborative works with his mother at CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland; and “A library, for you,” a traveling community library most recently housed at ikattha project space in Bombay, India. Granger is also a featured filmmaker in the Wex’s recent Cinetracts ’20 project and frequent partner with the center’s Department of Learning & Public Practice. Read more.

A performance and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York, Khan’s work sublimates colonial histories in order to map geographies of the future. The artist’s latest solo exhibition, Snake Skin, opened in late 2019 at Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and their work has shown at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Germany; Jenkins Johnson Projects (2019), SculptureCenter (2018), and Participant Inc. (2017) in New York; and the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2017), among other venues. Khan recently completed a six-week performance residency at The Kitchen in New York (2020) and was an artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works (2018–19) and Abrons Art Center (2016–17). Khan received an MFA from Cornell University (2012) and a BFA from the University of North Texas (2005) and is currently featured in Climate Changing, the Wexner Center’s latest exhibition. Read more.

Sealy-Jefferson is a social epidemiologist and assistant professor in Ohio State’s College of Public Health whose scholarship and activism focus on systems of oppression and their impact on the health of Black families and communities. She is the founder and director of the Social Epidemiology to Eliminate Disparities (SEED) Lab, the principal investigator of the Social Epidemiology to Combat Unjust Residential Evictions (SECURE) Study, and the chair-elect of the American Public Health Association’s Epidemiology Section. Read more.

Strickland is the Deputy Director of Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute, a national think tank and nonprofit partner of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. As deputy director, Strickland works with experts and community leaders to advance policies that reimagine the American economy and democracy for the good of all. Currently, Strickland is leading a multiyear racial justice landscape project that will provide a historical overview and analysis of the latest research, policy ideas, and political movement-building on race, economics, and politics. In addition, Strickland is the senior legal analyst at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity and the director of My Brother’s Keeper Ohio. A native of Columbus, Strickland earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State and a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as student body president. Read more.

Autumn Glover is an urban planner who’s passionate about the intersection of race, place, and health. Currently she serves in a dual role with Partners Achieving Community Transformation (PACT), where she is president and a founding staff member, and Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center where, as senior director of community and civic engagement, she leads multiple projects including the development of a prevention-focused, healthy community center and an enterprise-wide health equity and anti-racism strategy. PACT is a nonprofit focused on the disruption of intergenerational poverty and the creation of a mixed-income community through strategic investments and with an emphasis on housing, education, economic impact, and health. She is responsible for the design and implementation of PACT’s award-winning community engagement process and the development of the PACT Blueprint for Community Investment. This work resulted in more than $220 million in program and capital investments, including $30 million in HUD Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Implementation grants. Glover teaches in Ohio State’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs and serves the Columbus community as a board member and volunteer through a number of organizations. Originally from Toledo, Glover lives in Columbus with her husband and daughter and holds a Master of City and Regional Planning and Master of Public Policy and Management from Ohio State.