Lead paint, pipes, and progress in Milwaukee

How does lead contamination affect Great Lakes communities, especially marginalized ones? In this episode, Bonnie and guest host Dr. Deidre Peroff to explore the impact of lead contamination in Milwaukee.

Special thanks to our guests:

Jamie Ferschinger, (former) Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

Alejandra Vigil, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

Dr. Molly Cousin, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

Professor Melissa Scanlan, UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences

Andrian Lee, (former) Wisconsin Sea Grant, UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences

Links:

• Resources for Milwaukee residents:
• Check if you home has a lead lateral
• Lead-Safe Milwaukee
• Milwaukee segregation map
• Coalition on Lead Emergency

• Badgers & Lead mining
• Spatialized Intersectionality: Gendered and Racialized Residential Segregation and the Milwaukee Lead Crisis by Erica Morell and Dalvery Blackwell
• The intersectional effect of poverty, home ownership, and racial/ethnic composition on mean childhood blood lead levels in Milwaukee County neighborhoods
• Lead-Safe Wisconsin: Childhood Lead Poisoning Data and Data Analysis
• Wisconsin's Black children 4 times more likely to be lead poisoned than white children in 2022
• Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: A Historic Investment in Water
• Sixteenth Street’s Lead Poisoning Prevention work