Fellow Story

Vera receives ASA award for outstanding publication

Fellow(s): Lourdes Vera
Topic(s): Environmental & Social Justice, Environmental Policy & Law

Lourdes Vera is the winner of the 2021 Robert Boguslaw Award for her lead role in the publication “When Data Justice and Environmental Justice Meet: Formulating a Response to Extractive Logic Through Environmental Data Justice” published in 2019 in Information, Communication & Society. Vera is a 2019 Switzer Fellow, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, and a member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI). 

The Robert Boguslaw award is given every second year to an outstanding young investigator whose work explores “the relationship between technology and humanism or otherwise proposes innovative solutions to emerging social issues associated with technology.” The committee agreed that Vera’s leadership in applying and extending the concept of environmental data justice across multiple contexts was truly exemplary and deserving of this honor.  

The winning article can be found here:

Vera, Lourdes A., Dawn Walker, Michelle Murphy, Becky Mansfield, Ladan Mohamed Siad, Jessica Ogden, and EDGI. 2019. “When data justice and environmental justice meet: formulating a response to extractive logic through environmental data justice.” Information, Communication & Society, 22(7):1012-1028, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1596293 

The 2021 Boguslaw committee members were Amalia Leguizamón, Yao Li and Norah MacKendrick (Chair).

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Katrina Schneider

Lourdes Vera

2019 Fellow
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas...