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Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast interviews Patterson on transportation justice

Fellow(s): Regan Patterson
Topic(s): Architecture & Urban Planning, Environmental & Public Health, Environmental Education, Environmental & Social Justice, Environmental Policy & Law

Dr. Regan Patterson joined the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss her research and advocacy for transportation reparations and justice.

"You're starting to see this explicit link being made between state-sanctioned violence and transportation equity."

Patterson, a Transportation Equity Research Fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Switzer Fellow and current Agents of Change fellow, also talks about her love of math from an early age, institutional barriers for young Black girls going into STEM careers, and how she came to incorporate environmental justice into her engineering research.

The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present Agents of Change fellows, as well as others in the field. You can see all of the past episodes here.

Listen to or read the transcript of Patterson's interview here. 

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Regan Patterson

Regan Patterson

2018 Fellow
Regan Patterson is Assistant Professor at UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in the Social Environment and...