Our Values

Minimizing health and environmental impact

We emphasize keeping the people and the planet healthy. The organizations that we partner with are all like-minded in prioritizing health and nature, so we do our utmost to support them in their endeavors.

collaborative design

Understanding the communities and the stakeholders with whom we collaborate is paramount to designing excellent solutions. We place incredible value on bonding with communities to create these solutions together and enacting change with them.

Logistical sustainability

We believe that it is much more sustainable to teach a person to fish rather than to feed them dinner. We ensure our partners are properly trained and equipped to sustain our designs without the need for our interference. We maintain that this will be better in the long run for communities to build a sense of empowerment and self-righteousness, as well as for us to influence more communities.

Our Goals

Advocates need evidence…

Air sensors will be installed in locally to large ultrafine particle incubators. Data gathered from these sensors will provide foundations for cases advocates make for policy change and mitigating pollution.

COMMUNITIES WANT ANSWERS…

Community members will be able to see visualizations of air quality in real time so that they have a heightened understanding and awareness of their environment. They will be empowered by evidence of poor air quality enough to contact their representatives to do something.

pollution should go…

We will mitigate passive air pollution of homes, schools, and community centers via installation of HEPA purifiers. We will use our results to motivate governments to subsidize HEPA purifiers and promote cleaner air.

By working with local communities to establish an air monitoring network, disseminate air purifiers, and make data accessible to the community, Air Partners co-creates short-term and long-term air quality justice solutions.

Our Team

Research Heads

Air Partners is coordinated by Founder and Lead Dr. Scott Hersey and Research Program Manager Francesca Majluf. Scott is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and modeled Air Partners after the multi-stakeholder, intervention-focused group with whom he worked at North-West University in South Africa. Francesca joined in 2021 to focus on the Air Justice Roxbury project, and is also an instructor at Olin College. Scott, Francesca, and their cohorts of students are devoted to supporting community partners in the work of air quality justice in Boston and beyond.

Past Researchers and Contributors

Hwei-Shin Harriman

Jerry Goss