AfricaLogical Institute  ·  Indianapolis, Indiana
A Panoply of Weapons to Fight For Medicaid For All

FIGHT
ON

2025

Community voices. Real research. Real change. The fight for Medicaid is happening right now.

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For Community Members

Your voice is not just a story. It's evidence.

You know what it feels like when the system gets in the way. When healthcare is hard to access. When policies are made without asking the people they affect most.

That experience matters. And it is exactly what we need to change things. This is how we fight back together.

For Policy / Lawmakers

Data you can trust. Research built with communities, not about them.

When you make decisions about Medicaid, you need data that reflects what's actually happening on the ground. This research gives you that.

Team Indiana has conducted 100+ interviews across five cities. Our work is IRB-approved, peer-reviewed, and already cited in a U.S. Court of Appeals brief.

For Community Leaders

You're not organizing alone. We have tools, data, and a network ready to support you.

Leaders across Indiana are already fighting. Testifying at the Statehouse. Hosting community health consultations. Building the relationships that make policy change possible.

This is what "by all means available" looks like. And there's room for you in it.

Your story is research. Your voice is power.

When you share what it's really like to navigate healthcare, you give researchers data that academic studies miss. Real stories from real people are the foundation of this work. They have already influenced Indiana legislation. They are now in front of a federal court.

What sharing your story does

It goes into IRB-approved research that protects your privacy. It can be used anonymously if you choose. It becomes evidence in policy debates. It helps decision-makers understand what's really happening in communities like yours.

You decide how much you share. Your information is reviewed ethically and used for real impact.

Share Your Story

Better data leads to better policy.

Our 2019 HIP study produced 11 actionable recommendations cited at the Indiana General Assembly. Legislators on both sides of the aisle quoted our Medicaid impact analysis during Senate Bill 2 debate. This is research that holds up.

What's available to you

The Positive Economic Impact of Medicaid: A policy brief showing that keeping people on healthcare is fiscally responsible for Indiana.

Community Valued Research data: 100+ interviews representing the lived experiences of Medicaid recipients across six Indiana cities.

Amicus Curiae Brief: Filed in the case Rose v. Kennedy, currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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By all means available.

The Community Leadership Board represents clergy, educators, advocates, veterans, and organizers from Fort Wayne to Gary to Bloomington. They are not advisory. They are co-designers. And they are fighting.

What you can access

Community Health Equity Consultation model: A proven template for hosting community education and galvanization events in your city.

Advocacy training resources: CLB Advocacy Training guides developed for grassroots organizers.

Network connections: Join a coalition of community leaders already active in six Indiana cities and growing nationally.

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What's Happening Right Now

People are being hurt. Right now.

Families are losing healthcare coverage. Seniors and children are left without access to care. Policies are being written without the people they affect most.

This is not abstract. For hundreds of thousands of Indiana families, this is a matter of life and death.

The Evidence

This is not just advocacy. This is research.

Team Indiana spent three years listening. Here's what that looks like in numbers.

100+
Interviews in 5 cities
30+
Research partners
6
Cities engaged
Court Record

Our research was submitted in an Amicus Curiae Brief in Rose v. Kennedy, currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Community voices are now part of the official legal record.

Our Approach

We don't just study problems. We fight to change them.

Community Valued Research (CVR) is not research about communities. It's research built with them.

Community members are not subjects of study. They are the experts. We start by asking, not assuming. Nothing about us, without us. The wisdom is already in the community. Our job is to make space for it.

Our Community Leadership Board is not symbolic. They shaped the interview questions. They guided the outreach. They challenged our analysis. They co-designed this research from the front lines, not the sidelines.

Scholar-activist research. Legal briefs. Testimony at the Statehouse. Community education. Policy proposals. Poetry and art. A panoply means an arsenal. We use every weapon available to protect the people who cannot easily fight for themselves.

Research that doesn't move money doesn't move enough. The goal is documented change. Budgets shifted. Laws rewritten. Access restored. We remember Brown v. Board of Education not because hope was stirred, but because the law was changed.

What We Have Used

The Weapons of Our Warfare

This is not one approach. It is everything at once.

The community is not the object of investigation, but a partner in the quest for knowledge.
Community Valued Research Methodology  ·  AfricaLogical Institute
Our panoply of weapons to fight for Medicaid for all is based on data received, stories told, and the belief that truth will unwaveringly lead to liberation.
Dr. Ivan Douglas Hicks, Ph.D.  ·  Founder, AfricaLogical Institute
"Complexity hinders equity."
Bishop Bill McGill  ·  Imani Baptist Temple, Fort Wayne, IN  ·  Community Leadership Board
Lives are at stake

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When you sign on, you are helping amplify community voices — those who are too often silenced, ignored, and left out. This is a moral call to action.

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About This Work

Team Indiana

This work is led by three Principal Investigators through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program:

Dr. Ivan Douglas Hicks, Ph.D.
Ethnographer, AfricaLogical Institute
Dr. David M. Craig, Ph.D.
Ethicist, IU Indianapolis
Dr. Elaine M. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Sociologist, IU Bloomington

Supported by a Community Leadership Board of 10 leaders across Indiana and a research team of 30+ partners, students, and community collaborators.

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