Idalmis Vaquero joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss her upbringing in an environmental justice neighborhood, how it led her to law school, and how Just Solutions turns communities’ priorities into policies.
Gran parte de esta brecha racial y étnica en el uso de los territorios federales se achaca a la indiferencia o a la falta de interés de las personas de color y de otras identidades minoritarias, pero este punto de vista ignora el contexto crítico de cómo las identidades de las personas conforman su relación con los territorios públicos.
A lot of the racial and ethnic gap in federal land usage is blamed on indifference or lack of interest from people of color and people of other minority identities, but this viewpoint ignores critical context of how a person’s identities shape their relationship to public lands
Dr. Iglesias-Ríos's research interests are the intersection of environmental and occupational health with precarious employment and labor exploitation in vulnerable populations. Her previous research assessed the impact of labor trafficking by studying how patterns of violence and coercion affect the mental health of female and male trafficking survivors including children, adolescents and adults.
