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Coming up on Connections: Wednesday, March 29th

HarperCollins

First hour: Reshaping Rochester explores how to build healthy communities

Second hour: Author Joann Lublin and her book, Earning It

How and where we build housing, streets, and stores can have major effects the health of our communities. That’s the focus of the next Reshaping Rochester event, which explores how to create equitable and healthy neighborhoods. We’ll discuss the rising popularity of Health Impact Assessments (HIAs), which analyze how public health can be impacted by proposed plans and policies. In San Francisco, for instance, developers building an affordable housing complex near an area with high traffic pollution changed their plans to construct windows on the traffic side of the building after seeing data from an HIA. The new plans led to windows facing a courtyard, with less noise and pollution, and more views of green space. The solutions proposed by HIAs are pushing developers to think about construction and health in new ways. There are even a few HIAs in Rochester, including one exploring the city’s waterfront. We’ll discuss all of this and more with our guests:

  • Maria Furgiuele, interim executive director of the Community Design Center of Rochester
  • Dr. Katrina Korfmacher, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Rebecca Morley, director of the Health Impact Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. 

Then in our second hour, we'll talk with Joann Lublin, the management news editor for The Wall Street Journal. While her work at The Journal has earned numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize, Lublin's ascent to the newspaper’s highest ranks did not come without challenges. As one of the paper's first female reporters, she says she experienced sexual harassment, unequal pay, and a number of other obstacles. Lublin decided to share her experiences — along with those of more than 50 other high ranking female corporate executives — in a new book, Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World. She’ll join us to discuss leadership lessons and her thoughts on the future of women in the workplace.
 

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Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.