Environmental & Social Justice

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Melinda Adams proposes Indigenous Fire Justice as step toward environmental and climate 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...
November 26, 2024
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Clara Fang asks: who are climate activists and what do they do?

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.
September 16, 2024
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Black Mammalogists Week uplifts connections and contributions of Diaspora

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.
September 16, 2024
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Clara Fang: Women of Color and the Glass Cliff

Advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in leadership.
August 26, 2024
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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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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.