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Ashley B. Gripper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health and an affiliate of The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity. Her work integrates environmental health scholarship with antiracist social justice initiatives, particularly focusing on Black communities’ connections to land and food systems.
Education:
- PhD in Population Health Sciences (Environmental Epidemiology), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- MPH in Epidemiology, Columbia University
- BA in Sociology, Arcadia University
Her research interests include community-engaged research, climate justice, food justice, and land access. She has led projects like the Philadelphia Urban Agriculture Comprehensive Plan and collaborates with Soil Generation, a coalition of Black and Brown farmers advocating for community land control. Her publications analyze spatial equity in food systems, maternal health disparities, and metrics for community power.
Grants and Advocacy: Gripper co-chairs the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council’s Governance working group and has been funded as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar. Her work emphasizes grassroots partnerships, care-based research practices, and policy interventions to address systemic inequities in food and land access.
