Doctoral Student Maria Blancas wins $100,000 Bullitt Prize

Maria Blancas, a doctoral student at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and staff member of the UW Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, is the recipient of the 2019 Bullitt Environmental Prize for her work with immigrant farmworkers in Washington. Blancas leads a collaborative project between the Latino Center for Health, Dr. Vanessa Galaviz–former faculty at UW SPH and currently a researcher at PNASH–and farmworkers in Skagit and Whatcom counties. Congratulations, Maria!