Casey Langwith

Casey Langwith, a history and sociology major from Omaha, Neb., graduated from Rice University in 2009. She assisted in research on women’s health, poverty, preconception health care and health insurance at the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at The George Washington University (GWU) in summer 2007. She presented the results of her research, “Playing to Lose: The Role of Safe Urban Parks in Curbing America’s Obesity Epidemic,” at the Baker Institute in September 2007. Langwith was recommended by Bridget Gorman of the Department of Sociology at Rice. She was a research assistant for the Center for Race, Religion and Urban Life at Rice University from 2007 to 2009, and in summer 2008 she interned for Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) in Washington, D.C. In 2009, she began work examining public health policy and obesity at the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance at GWU.