Empowering Communities: Gerald Onuoha, and His Vision for Health Equity

Growing up in a cramped, three-bedroom house in Huntsville, Alabama, with nine other family members, Gerald Onuoha’s early life was marked by struggle.

“We were often moving from home to home,” he recalls. Kicked out of middle school before dropping out of high school, Onuoha says he was often exposed to negative environments during his formative years. “I was not on the trajectory to become a successful human,” he reflects. “I was on the school-to-prison pipeline—a path that is neither beneficial to the individual nor the community.” 

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