Client
PBS
Year
2019
It’s a part of“Chasing The Dream” on PBS, it is about How do Type 2 diabetes patients living in low-income communities manage this disease? Blood Sugar Rising: NYC follows Tracey Tirado-Vasquez, a diabetic mother and caretaker for her disabled brother, and Koy Torres who is part of the growing number of young people diagnosed with the disease.
Amidst a globalpandemic and growing Black Lives Matter movement, we see firsthand how theseindividuals manage a life-threatening disease under the additional pressures ofsystemic inequity and an unprecedented health crisis. (Blood SugarRising: NYC is a digital companion series to the national PBSfilm Blood Sugar Rising.)