Kara Eastman is chief executive of Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance, an award-winning nonprofit organization that has raised $8 million to support healthy housing for children in the Omaha area. She can be reached at kara@omahahealthykids.org.
We’ve just witnessed a massive public health disaster in which the residents of Flint, Mich., including every one of 8,000 children, have been exposed to lead in the city’s drinking water.