UNC CHAPEL HILL | Angel Hsu, director of DDL and a public policy associate professor in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, has researched environmental issues and how they disproportionately affect communities for over a decade. Eventually, she created the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index, a platform for cities around the world to see how they perform on environmental markers such as air quality, heat and water stress. A grant from the Belonging Forum brought the vision to life and allowed Hsu and DDL to collect preliminary data needed for additional funding.

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