Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Sociology and the Minnesota Population Center. She specializes in racial inequality in mortality and historical infectious disease and co-leads an ongoing project on COVID-19 mortality in Minnesota. Alongside her academic research on COVID-19 vaccine equity, she helped found the Seward Vaccine Equity Project. Read more
The Seward Vaccine Equity Project (SVEP) is an all-volunteer community vaccination project in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis. SVEP works to make COVID-19 vaccines accessible to people at high risk who have limited access, particularly East African refugee and immigrant families, in a community that was directly targeted by anti-vaccine activists such as Andrew Wakefield. Using outreach models drawn from community and labor organizing, SVEP has arranged about 500 primary-series vaccinations and booster shots–virtually all going to these prioritized communities–and is still finding people ready to get their first shots in 2022.
