Aziza Ahmed (Affiliated Faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor of Law) was featured in CNBC Make It and the New York Times commenting on how to best encourage those around you to wear masks. Ahmed notes that putting social pressure on others to wear masks can be helpful, calling out strangers is not necessarily the solution. Ahmed advises people to instead encourage their friends and family to wear masks.
This is all discussed in these articles addressing how to increase mask usage in the United States. Read more here and here.