Lydia Rose is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University. Her primary area of interest and research is social inequality focusing on environmental justice issues, health, and well-being. She moved to East Liverpool, Ohio in 2010 to teach at the Kent State University, East Liverpool campus and became a Public Sociologists working with the local city officials, community service organizations, and the schools to address overall community health and well-being issues entered around environmental justice, food systems, and poverty issues.
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