Our lab’s actions center on the following overarching goals: situating our work within a real-world setting; using these real-world experiences to assist with creating tangible, meaningful, and exclusive environmental policy; challenging existing (or creating new) policy by evaluating not only how sound is impacting community health but how it measured, regulated, reported; creating useful and accessible research tools, situating community noise issues into the larger environmental exposure paradigm; working with a diverse group of academics, residents, and students in fields ranging from engineering and communications to neurology and urban planning; more deeply understanding environmental justice and health inequities.