Environmental & Social Justice

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Diana Fu

2021 Fellow
Diana currently supports programs in public engagement and equity at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership.
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AJ Hudson

2021 Fellow
A. J. Hudson is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a recent MESc graduate of the Yale School of the Environment (2019). Before law school, AJ spent five years teaching and eventually helped to found a public high school in one of the...
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Gabriela Alberola

2021 Fellow
Gabriela ‘Gaby’ Alberola is originally from Panama City, Panama, where her passion for environmental and social justice was born. For her undergraduate research at the University of Panama, she conducted a botanical inventory of a forest...
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Deniss Martinez

2021 Fellow
Deniss is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Group in Ecology at UC Davis. The purpose of her dissertation is to find strategies for California Native communities and their collaborators to create governance and collaborative mechanisms that...
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Aja Grande

2021 Fellow
Aja finds joy in building reciprocal relationships between people and land. She was born and raised on the island of Oʻahu in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the department...
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Golden co-authors paper on how more inclusive lab meetings lead to better science

The paper seeks to help scientists structure their lab-group meetings so that they are more inclusive, more productive and, ultimately, lead to better science.
June 8, 2021
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Vera receives ASA award for outstanding publication

Lourdes Vera is the winner of the 2021 Robert Boguslaw Award for her lead role in the publication “When Data Justice and Environmental Justice Meet: Formulating a Response to Extractive Logic Through Environmental Data Justice” published in 2019 in Information, Communication & Society. Vera is a 2019 Switzer Fellow, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, and a member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI).
June 8, 2021
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Vaquero receives Equal Justice Works Fellowship

Idalmis Vaquero will defend the environmental and housing rights of Black and Latinx families impacted by industrial lead contamination in East and Southeast Los Angeles.
May 26, 2021
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New Deal for National Security

Kartikeya Singh reflects that the Biden administration's first 100 days in office indicate "it has every intention to reestablish a social contract between the people and their government. If implemented well, this renewed social contract, with an emphasis on climate action and environmental justice, would be the best guarantor of U.S. national security."
May 10, 2021
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Richter co-edits special issue of Environmental Sociology: Race and the Environment

Switzer fellow Lauren Richter co-edited a special issue of Environmental Sociology on "Race and the Environment" with Raoul Lievanos, Elisabeth Wilder, Jennifer Carrera, and Michael Mascarenhas.
April 29, 2021