A Product of his Environment

Directed by Jamie DeWolf · Starring Joshua Merchant · 2012

Poet Joshua Merchant delivers a spoken-word piece on how neighborhoods, marketing and food access fuel the type 2 diabetes epidemic among young people.

A punchy spoken-word poem that reframes diabetes as a social justice issue.

The Bigger Picture is a collaboration between Youth Speaks, and the University of California, San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations designed to combat the rising epidemic of Type 2 diabetes by empowering youth

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