For those who may not have had the chance to read your paper yet, could one of you briefly summarize the main findings and what you hope listeners take away from this work?

Yeah, yeah.

So I'll get us started with just giving some context.

So one neighborhood factor we've been studying a lot in the research lab is residential segregation.

And because of historical policies like redlining and decades of structural discrimination, many Black Americans have lived in segregated neighborhoods with restricted access to healthcare, education, and economic resources.

These are areas that have oftentimes experienced disinvestment.

At the same time, these neighborhoods can also be really unique spaces.

Dr. Clark, did you have anything you wanted to add?

But I feel like she was a tricky character to write.

We loved writing her.

And to be honest, she's such a mercurial character in the sense that she's an actor, right? So there's performance Fern where she's all up and smiling regardless of what's happening in the world around her.

She's up on that stage singing and performing and she's doing the grand gestures and she's got the little fake accent and she's very aware of herself and how she carries herself.

She's a performer, she's performing.

And then as you... peel the onion of her throughout this season, you see the soft, raw core of what she lost.

You know, the brother that she lost in the war, the parents that she lost in illness, and And that farm that's so derelict, you see it in episode two, and she's just left it to rot.

Yeah, I think it's something, again, that strikes a chord with the audience because we've also had, you know, fan letters about that as well, saying they'd see someone going through that and the happy ending makes it even that sweeter.