In this role, Michelle “leads Ormond’s initiatives in environmental justice, climate care, and food insecurity. She is also Ormond’s ecumenical portfolio coach for Pathways Towards Impact.
By offering new “possibilities of policy evaluation” that emerge from climate justice imaginaries in Boston, this paper showcases how visions of the just and unjust city can serve as governing devices to transform policy evaluation practices and advance more just climate futures.
Jade Johnson was featured in a San Diego Union Tribune news article about a sewage pollution and monitoring crisis in the Tijuana River. Johnson is a researcher and project coordinator at SDSU Public Health. "We are conducting a...
Every year, more than one million Californians face unsafe drinking water from taps in their homes, schools, churches, parks, and community centers. Research by Switzer Fellows Carolina Balazs and Rachel Morello-Frosch has found that water...
The Resilient Roots Project lifts up the voices and leadership of middle and high school age youth in taking climate action through digital storytelling and media arts in order to strengthen climate resiliency in communities that stand to...
In an October 2024 paper in Environmental Justice, Melinda Adams and co-author Daniel Sarvestani propose Indigenous Fire Justice as steps to move toward environmental justice and climate justice. They present case studies in California...
Nigel Golden received a 2024 Switzer Leadership Grant to support his position as Climate Justice Specialist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. He reflects on the role’s progress so far, likening it to “watching an ecosystem evolve over time.”
This study explores the demographics of the U.S. climate movement through a survey of 1003 climate activists in the USA, comparing demographics of White and BIPOC activists and their engagement with climate actions.
