The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative was created in 2005 out of growing concern for the health and safety of nail salon and other cosmetology workers, owners, and consumers. “The Collaborative” uses policy advocacy, research, industry advocacy outreach, and education strategies to address health and safety concerns facing these communities. Our mission is to advance a preventative environmental health agenda for the nail salon sector in California.

The Collaborative’s members include nail salon workers and owners, non profit and community organizations focused on environmental and reproductive health/justice, labor and Asian American community health, educational institutions, and government agency allies.

Quarterly Meeting 2009. Photographer: Wendy Chang