Tamarra James-Todd, PhD on peer mentoring and joy riding in her dad's Mustang

Update: 2022-01-08

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Tamarra James-Todd, PhD is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She tells me about the motivations for her research interests in environmental reproductive justice, dedicating her diabetes research to her late father, the value of peer mentorship, joy riding with her dad in his Mustang in the '70s, dinner with Hannibal Lecter and Molly Ringwald, and more! Laugh along with us!

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Tamarra James-Todd, PhD on peer mentoring and joy riding in her dad's Mustang

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Tamarra James-Todd, PhD on peer mentoring and joy riding in her dad's Mustang