Environmental & Social Justice

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Roberts-Gregory receives Vanguard Fellowship

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.
August 26, 2024
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Grove reviews how environmental justice and urban ecology interact

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.
August 26, 2024
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Hudson named EJ Disrupt Design Fellow

“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
August 26, 2024
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Hasmik Djoulakian

2024 Fellow
As an organizer and researcher, Hasmik is passionate about supporting food sovereignty movements in California and Armenia. She approaches this work with lenses from both the natural sciences and feminist studies.
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Emily Li

2024 Fellow
Emily studies community wealth building in immigrant & BIPOC communities through economic and climate justice, and is working with the City of Boston on community-based participatory action research and worker cooperative ecosystems.
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Summer Sullivan

2024 Fellow
Summer examines how increasingly digital landscapes affect workers and ecologies, broadening discussions about the future of work, race, and the limits of data in the face of the climate crisis.
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Temesgen Gebreyesus

2024 Fellow
Temesgen is an environmental justice advocate working toward a future where technology is balanced with nature, society is ecologically and economically productive, and the needs of both people and the environment are met.
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Natasha Frazier

2024 Fellow
Natasha (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) is pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy with a focus on International Development and Environmental Policy, and International Legal Studies at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is interested in the intersection of federal Indian law, environmental law, and water law.
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Sanjana Paul

2024 Fellow
Sanjana is an engineer, environmental justice researcher, and systems thinker working at the intersection of infrastructure, climate, and technology. She is a PhD student at MIT, where her research focuses on renewable energy, energy justice, and the electric grid. She is the co-founder of Rooted Futures Lab, a research and action collective advancing environmental justice in technology, and Earth Hacks, a nonprofit harnessing hackathons as a form of climate action. Her work has ranged from atmospheric science software engineering at NASA to passing decarbonization policy at the local level. She holds a BS in electrical engineering and physics, and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT.
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Nicole Wong

2024 Fellow
Nicole explores the intersection of affordable housing and climate equity, including building energy retrofit strategies that can reduce energy burden, prevent displacement, and target climate investments to low-income communities of color.