Environmental & Social Justice

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Demi Espinoza (she/they) is the daughter of working class Mexican immigrants and the youngest of ten siblings raised in Riverside, California. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at California State University San Bernardino and a...

Camila Bustos is an Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Prior to joining Pace, Professor Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College and a Clinical Supervisor in human...