Environmental & Social Justice

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Johnson writes op-ed on importance of young voters and voters of color to climate policy

Editor's note: The following opinion piece by Fellow Ayana Johnson first appeared on The Hill's website.
January 10, 2019
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Johnson in video on ocean conservation as a social justice issue

Fellow Ayana Johnson was featured in a "Strong Opinions Loosely Held" video on how ocean conservation is a social justice issue. Watch the video on Facebook
January 10, 2019
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Monitoring air quality and mapping border environmental justice issues

The goals of the project between Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) and Switzer Fellow Dr.
December 12, 2018
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Matsuoka publishes report chapter on importance of partnerships in cleaning up freight transportation pollution

Fellow Martha Matsuoka co-authored the chapter "Working Together to Clean Up Freight Transportation" in the new report from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Strategies for Health Justice: Lessons from the Field.
December 10, 2018
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Antos interviewed on links between homelessness and water

Infinite Earth Radio, a weekly podcast featuring thought leaders and change agents who are building smarter more sustainable and more equitable communities and businesses, interviewed Fellow Mike Antos on the intersection of homelessness and water management. Listen to episode 106 (part 1) Listen to episode 107 (part 2)
October 10, 2018
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Richter publishes on sixty years of research and inaction on fluorinated compounds

Lauren Richter has published an article in Social Studies of Science, "Non-stick science: Sixty years of research and (in)action on fluorinated compounds" about how the risks of PFASs have been both structurally hidden and unexamined by existing regulatory and industry practice. Abstract
October 2, 2018
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McClintock publishes on urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, Fellow Nathan McClintock proposes that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes.
September 10, 2018
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Dylan Harris

2018 Fellow
Dylan M. Harris is an Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). His work is on the stories we tell (and don't tell) about climate change, focusing specifically on...
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Teniope Adewumi-Gunn

2018 Fellow
Teniope Adewumi-Gunn is currently a Science Fellow at NRDC focusing on the intersection of climate change and worker health. Her research looks for solutions to address the climate impacts faced by workers, with a focus on underserved...