Jessica Wynn
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8,464 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6d ago
Jessica Wynn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maybe it wasn't just a failed intervention.
Maybe it was feedback.
Yeah, she is.
And that's actually just a terrific example of someone who seems to intuitively understand what all this research is saying.
So her loyalty to Compton led her project called Diaspora Groceries.
And it's not just a grocery store.
She wants it to become a community hub in South Los Angeles.
She's talked about cooking classes because, as she points out, Home Depot teaches people how to use power tools.
But grocery stores don't teach people how to use healthy food.
She wants financial literacy classes attached to the store, offer housing advice, and then just have shelves stocked with products from local and minority-owned businesses so more of the money stays in the neighborhood.
You know, it's a much broader vision than simply saying, here's a supermarket.
She is.
She's trying to build community, education, and economic opportunity alongside access to healthy food.
Whether her project succeeds or not, you know, say whatever you want about her, what she's doing, it's much closer to where the evidence points than the old idea that you can just drop a grocery store into a neighborhood and everyone's diet will change for the better.
Another thing policymakers get wrong is time.
Most of the evidence we've talked about looks at outcomes over a few months or a few years.
But there's a researcher named Stefan Hutt who used 11 years of data plus a retrospective survey going back several decades, and he found something remarkable.
People who move into healthier food environments do change their behavior, but it takes decades.
We're talking 30 to 40 years.
awful.
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