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Maria Blancas is a lecturer in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health and a research coordinator with the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. She has served as a graduate research assistant project manager for community-engaged participatory research projects. Blancas helped develop research instruments, trained community surveyors, provided qualitative data analysis support, and supported research translation and dissemination efforts. She received the prestigious Bullitt Environmental Prize for her dissertation work, which focuses on empowering farmworkers to tell their own stories. Governor Jay Inslee appointed Blancas to serve on the Washington State Environmental Justice Council. As the daughter of farmworkers, she is committed to ensuring that farmworkers and their families are safe and healthy. Blancas earned her doctorate in Environmental Forest Sciences from the University of Washington and completed her MPH degree in the Community-Oriented Public Health Practice program.
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