Environmental & Social Justice

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Cushing and Morello-Frosh publish equity analysis of California's clean vehicle rebate programs

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October 19, 2020
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Nigel Golden: National lecture on practices that reduce participation and retention in STEM

Nigel Golden presented the 2020 Ambrose Jearld Jr. Lecture on Diversity and Inclusion in July. His remarks focused on the importance of addressing the cultural and structural barriers to full participation by marginalized communities in STEM. Golden provided a framework for addressing the systemic issues that may explain and/or address those barriers.
August 3, 2020
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Monika Shankar

2020 Fellow
Monika Shankar is a PhD student in Environmental Health Science at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She graduated with a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of...
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Alejandro Artiga-Purcell

2020 Fellow
James Alejandro Artiga-Purcell is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication, in the Communication Studies Department at San Jose State University. He received his Ph.D. in the Environmental Studies department at UC Santa Cruz...
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Jade Roccoforte

2020 Fellow
Jade Roccoforte (Johnson) describes herself as an environmental chemist, currently specializing in the detection and analysis of a broad range of trace organic contaminants detected in various environmental matrices using a comprehensive...
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Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz

2020 Fellow
Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz is an interdisciplinary social scientist and writer based in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. His participatory and applied work explores the social dimensions of food systems, in relation to climate adaptation and public health outcomes, in the context of disasters and natural hazards.
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Kristin Dobbin

2020 Fellow
Kristin (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley focused on water justice policy and planning in California.
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Idalmis Vaquero

2020 Fellow
Idalmis is a third-year law student at UCLA School of Law, where she is enrolled in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She began advocating on environmental justice issues in her community of East Los Angeles...
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Ashley Stewart

2020 Fellow
Ashley Stewart received a Master of Environmental Science at Yale University’s School of the Environment. Ten years of experience as an environmental engineer and project manager has informed her expertise across the gamut of water...
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Evelyn Valdez-Ward

2020 Fellow
Evelyn (she/ella) is a sixth year, formerly undocumented, PhD candidate, Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Switzer Foundation Fellow studying the effects of drought on plants and soil microbes. Her final dissertation chapters aim to study...