To fall asleep on the hottest nights as a kid in midtown Tucson, Fabiola Bedoya used to soak her pillowcase with water.
The cool pillow helped her slip into sleep, but she would awake in the night, sweating and hot. Her single-parent home could not afford to run the air conditioning at times.
As an adult, Bedoya questioned “Why are there so many inequalities between accessibility and Latino families,” she asked. “I wondered about my allergies, the heat, and connections between those.”…