Environmental & Social Justice

Jadda is a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where she partners with Ohlone youth and cultural leaders to co-design mixed-reality exhibits. Alongside this work, she continues the community-based research she co-developed in Maui, Hawaiʻi, exploring how students engage with Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) biocultural knowledge alongside Western science in environmental and wildfire mitigation education. Broadly, her work centers Indigenous epistemologies, place-based education, and epistemic justice in environmental and science education.

Maddie Taylor is a disabled researcher studying climate change impacts on disabled communities, committed to producing work that centers disabled people as experts whose knowledge should inform climate adaptation.

Thomas Hyo-min King is an environmental designer and urbanist from rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focuses on strategies for delivering building rehabilitations and energy infrastructure that improve extant living conditions while reinforcing energetic and economic democracy among disinvested building populations.

Jenna is a Doctor of Dental Medicine student and environmental advocate based in Boston. She is passionate about constructing sustainable health care systems that expand access to care while reducing the environmental pollution associated with treatment. She aspires to become a dentist and policymaker that tackles health inequities and environmental degradation simultaneously.

Marina Dewinara Luccioni is a Corsican-Indonesian ecologist and experimental film-maker studying human and environmental health. Her PhD dissertation focuses on using chemical and molecular ecology in support of community-based and Indigenous ecological governance in Corsica, Hawai’i and California.