Environmental & Social Justice

Nathan McClintock is a geographer and professor of urban studies at the Instut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of formal and everyday environmental governance (notably of food and waste), political economy, and environmental justice in North American cities and the Canadian Arctic. He is co-director of the C3V, a space for collaborative research using audio, visual, and cartographic storytelling and is an an editor of the journal Urban Geography.

Hugh has 15 years of experience and expertise in the social and environmental justice movement both here and abroad. Most recently, he directed the Open Space Equity Campaign for the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYCEJA)...

Karen received her PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Maine and her MPH from UMass Amherst. Her research examines Infrastructure × health access disparities, as well as strategies for expanding the framework for...

Helen graduated from Stanford in 1995 with a B.S. in Earth Systems. She received the Firestone Prize for her honors thesis on construction and demolition waste recycling in Hong Kong. She interned in the environmental remediation department...

Joseph Bryan is a doctoral candidate in Geography at UC Berkeley. His research examines the role of international human rights standards in shaping the formulation and recognition of indigenous land rights in eastern Nicaragua's Miskito...

Martha Matsuoka is Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Executive Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. Her teaching focuses on environmental justice, community organizing, urban...

A 2009 Switzer Fellow, Alexa graduated from a joint law and public policy degree program at UCLA's Law School and School of Public Affairs in 2011. She focused her studies on environmental law and policy, especially as it is applied to...

Jen Osha (Jen-OH-sha) Buysse is currently is the Director and co-founder of the Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership School (Mtn SOL), a West Virginia environmental education non profit. The Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor...

Nicole is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist whose work focuses on the intersections of biodiversity conservation, governance, and human wellbeing. She focuses particularly on East African conservation with an emphasis on...