Tag: Education and Research

We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts.

Debemos priorizar a las instituciones que sirven principalmente a las minorías, a las organizaciones lideradas por personas de color y a investigadores de estos grupos para que sean ellos quienes lideren los esfuerzos por la justicia medioambiental.

Laura Diaz joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the intersection of social and environmental stressors on children’s health.

Las vasijas de barro contaminadas con plomo como las que usaba mi abuela en México evidencian la necesidad de una mejor educación ambiental para los profesionales de la salud.

Lead-tainted clay pots like my grandmother used in Mexico underscore the need for better environmental education among healthcare professionals.

Dr. Greer Hamilton joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss how she uses the arts to engage and involve communities around environmental justice research.

Dr. Ana Baptista joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss supporting environmental justice movements from within academia.

Dr. Kristi Pullen Fedinick joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss how a commitment to service has guided her career as a scientist in advocacy, academia and now the federal government.

Laura is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley where she studies how biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction can shed light on the underpinnings between exposure to social and environmental stressors on atopic disease among children in frontline environmental justice communities.

Greer Hamilton (she/her/hers) is a Transitional Postdoctoral Fellow and incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Her research interests focus on exploring how systems of oppression inform and shape the urban built environment and people’s relationship to places of meaning (e.g., neighborhoods).

Senior fellows Dr. Robbie Parks, Jan-Michael Archer and Marissa Chan join the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss what is means to be biracial.