Environmental & Social Justice

In an October 2024 paper in Environmental Justice, Melinda Adams and co-author Daniel Sarvestani propose Indigenous Fire Justice as steps to move toward environmental justice and climate justice. They present case studies in California...

This study explores the demographics of the U.S. climate movement through a survey of 1003 climate activists in the USA, comparing demographics of White and BIPOC activists and their engagement with climate actions.

This celebration of current and aspiring Black mammalogists across the Diaspora exists to support conscious, fruitful connections and illuminate historical and present-day Black contributions to the field of Mammalogy.

Advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in leadership.

The Vanguard Fellowship is “a transformative program designed to nurture the next generation of environmental and conservation leaders of color” and provides six months of professional development related to board service.

The review paper asks how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project.

“It will be an absolute joy to be amongst other disruptors and build a space where we share the burdens of imagining a better movement, world, and future. Our collective resistance to the status quo gives me hope in this precarious moment, and the leaders I am surrounded by inspire me to smile even as we fight.” - AJ Hudson

Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...

Camila Bustos worked with the International Refugee Assistance Project and nine other nonprofit organizations who engage in climate action and migrant and refugee advocacy to create a “legal action agenda that sets concrete steps to ensure...