During the COVID shutdown, Parkite Melani Glassman had time on her hands and was feeling useless. She heard about conditions on the Navajo reservation in southern Utah, and was horrified.
The health disparities she learned of – along with living conditions far different than most Americans enjoy – struck her.
Those problems are far from new – but she said the pandemic highlighted them.
"A lot of the promises from the US government historically haven't followed through, I mean dating back centuri...