The communities that I serve are plagued by violence and su… - Amanda Lynch

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The communities that I serve are plagued by violence and substance abuse. A few years into my career, my best friend, Angel Jackson and her father Herbert Levi Sharpe, Sr. were murdered. This changed the trajectory of my entire career and I began to focus more on mental health and mindfulness in the black community.

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Amanda H. Lynch is an environmental and social scientist, and the Director of the Brown Institute of Environment and Society and Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University.

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