{"id":99679,"date":"2022-03-10T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=99679"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T19:26:52","slug":"video-pilsen-activist-uses-fitness-political-education-to-combat-life-expectancy-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-pilsen-activist-uses-fitness-political-education-to-combat-life-expectancy-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Pilsen activist uses fitness, political education to combat life expectancy gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chantel Ropp<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/nyulangone.org\/news\/large-life-expectancy-gaps-us-cities-linked-racial-ethnic-segregation-neighborhood\">analysis<\/a> of the largest 500 U.S. cities by NYU School of Medicine, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago is the city with the largest life expectancy gap amongst low income and affluent communities in the country. One nonprofit organization in the Pilsen neighborhood is tackling these inequities through fitness, political education and community health programming. Meet Healthy Hood Chicago, founded by activist, dancer and mother Tanya Lozano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Healthy Hood Chicago\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/685554040?h=779709e79e&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TANYA LOZANO: My name is Tanya Lozano. I\u2019m the founder and CEO of Healthy Hood Chicago. This is an organization that was created to combat the current 20-year life expectancy gap that exists between communities of color and affluent communities. In Chicago it\u2019s actually the largest life expectancy gap that exists in the nation, and it\u2019s because of how segregated our city is, so the disparities are magnified here. But it\u2019s really just a reflection of the disparities that exist all across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Text on screen (no narration): <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TO HELP CLOSE THIS GAP, HEALTHY HOOD OFFERS $5 FITNESS CLASSES, POLITICAL EDUCATION EVENTS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMMING.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TANYA LOZANO: Everything we do, we really try to politically educate our people. If you\u2019re coming to a fitness class, we\u2019re going to tell you you\u2019re not just coming to work out for yourself. What you\u2019re doing right now is revolutionary because there\u2019s a 20-year life expectancy gap that exists in the city because of the broken health care system, and it was intentionally built that way. So by you coming here, you\u2019re standing up to the broken system, and I want you to go back and tell that to your family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;KID,&#8221; HEALTHY HOOD MEMBER: Healthy Hood is here for the community. Healthy Hood has been here for the longest. I mean, they started off small, but it\u2019s grown to a very powerful community where the motto is \u2018we got us.\u2019 And it\u2019s very true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TANYA LOZANO: We\u2019re changing the culture. We\u2019re making it cool again to be conscious people, and we\u2019re making it cool again for people to take on responsibility in our movement for social justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chantel Ropp is a video and broadcast graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chantelropp\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@ChantelRopp<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Instagram at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chantelropp\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@ChantelRopp<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chantel Ropp Medill Reports According to an analysis of the largest 500 U.S. cities by NYU School of Medicine, Chicago is the city with the largest life expectancy gap amongst low income and affluent communities in the country. 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