Environmental & Social Justice

Christopher Ihinegbu's research integrates environmental justice into wildfire and flood resilience, focusing on practical approaches to facilitate cascading resilience. His work aims to inform environmental advocacy and translational science by promoting leverage for equitable disaster resilience. As a Climate Justice Champion with the Climate Action Campaign, he advocates for equitable climate solutions.

Ben is an aspiring litigator and policy advocate interested in intersectional racial, environmental, and economic justice work. Ben is particularly interested in expanding holistic legal services models to include environmental justice principles and concerns and the unique roles and responsibilities of state and local governments in pursuing environmental justice enforcement and affirmative litigation.

Destiny Dynella Treloar is a proud first-generation Nicaragüense woman from Miami. She is fiercely committed to advocating for the well-being of Latine communities, addressing the structural drivers of nutritional insecurity, and developing meaningful solutions to modulate environmental health disparities in her home communities. Destiny is a PhD candidate at the Yale School of Environment.

Charlston Britton is an architect, and RISD Presidential Fellow from New Orleans whose work is deeply shaped by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Pursuing a Master of Design in Adaptive Reuse with a concentration in Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies, his work and research explore the intersection of craft and resilience through spatial interventions.

Jackson is a master’s in environmental management candidate specializing in ecosystem conservation and management at the Yale School of the Environment. Jackson is particularly interested in private lands conservation, prairie plants, commodity markets, land ownership, ecological restoration, and lots more.

Chloe Schneider Johnson’s work is guided by the conviction that environmental crises often stem from misplaced priorities and concentrated power that leave social and environmental sacrifice zones in their wake. She aims to leverage policy for community use to defend the universal right to health and connection with local ecosystems. She currently works in the space of wildfire resilience, advancing sustainable rural stewardship economies and supporting Indigenous-led, place-based approaches to land restoration.