Media
The YEARS Project Highlights the Urgent Need for Worker Safety in Extreme Heat
The YEARS Project examines the urgent risk extreme heat poses to outdoor workers, featuring La Isla Network's research on CKDnt and the rest-shade-hydration-sanitation intervention model.
TIME - Too Hot to Work
La Isla Network - It’s Time to Work Together
Hidden Under the Indian Sun
LIN Communicators
The La Isla Network communicators are a tight-knit group of photographers, filmmakers and artists dedicated to covering the CKDnT issue worldwide in order to inform governments, industries and the public of the ongoing investigations and solutions to the epidemic. Our growing body of work has covered Nicaragua, El Salvador, India, Sri Lanka and is expanding to the United States, South America and beyond. This unique collaboration between photography, film and art, coupled with advocacy-based communication strategies and techniques, facilitate an unparalleled opportunity to stimulate conversation and to expand the network of people willing to take a stand against CKDnT.
Through the work of the La Isla Network communicators, we invite you to explore how CKDnT is affecting workers and their communities. We welcome the opportunity to share our work, show a film and provide guest speakers on CKDnT and the impact this disease has on families, local communities, and countries around the world.
Ed Kashi
Photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator. Longtime contributor to National Geographic and member of VII Photo Agency, documenting CKDnt and occupational heat stress for more than 15 years.
Tom Laffay
Filmmaker and photojournalist. His reporting on CKDnt and migrant worker heat exposure has been featured in TIME and other major outlets.
Aubrey Roemer
Artist and journalist documenting the human impact of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin (CKDnt) across affected communities.