When Isaias Hernandez was growing up in Los Angeles, he faced a host of obstacles. From living off food stamps to struggling with the city’s air quality, Hernandez was raised with an acute understanding of how poverty, migration, gender discrimination, and environmental destruction intersect and feed off each other. “At a young age, I realized that there were moments in my life that I was never able to leave my apartment because the smog was bad,” he says. “Being in poverty really deprived me from having access to clean spaces.” Hernandez has since devoted his career to ensuring that the...