We created Leaders Igniting Generational Healing and Transformation (LIGHT) as a go-to literary journal in public health. We are a journal, bringing back the true meaning of journal as a way to record personal experiences and stories through literary works. We are a logbook of illustrations and photographs, a digital and print commonplace that the public can use to creatively express themselves through narratives of their own health.
We are an anti-racism, anti-establishment, and decolonial response to public health. We recognize that we live in a society full of racial inequities that keep people unhealthy. One that includes policies and practices that we see or don’t see. LIGHT seeks to identify and challenge these practices, to create policies and practices that create equity for all people. We are also here to dismantle the old dead ideas about the public and their health that were not built with the public first in mind.
We are a space focused on connections we make, the creativity we possess, and the community we form as we journey together to blaze roads and light up paths that keep people healthy. We are storytellers, writers, poets, editors, artists, and researchers committed to centering ‘people’ in public health.
We believe in the power of stories, its supreme ability, both in fiction and non-fiction, to illuminate and make public health real and center the lived experience. We also believe in the irresistible power of words, in the power of art, poetry and letters by and from the public to share the truth about life that in turn can be used as voices of urgency, voices of inspiration to buttress calls for actions to keep people healthy.
We believe in the power of creativity, the power of illustrations to spark conversations, to accelerate knowledge and ignite action that center people in public health.
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Industry
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Education
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Company size
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11-50 employees
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Headquarters
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St Louis, Missouri
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Type
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Nonprofit
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Founded
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2021
