Bruni Pizarro

Bruni Pizarro is a scholar-organizer whose work is at the intersection of race, class and the built environment. She previously served on the Environment & Climate Change Committee of the Transition Team for the Mayor-Elect of New Haven. Her scholarship and advocacy centers on climate-induced disaster, colonialism and the impact of forced migration on displaced Puerto Rican women. Her work explores how American urban inequality and the built environment shape the lived experience of Black & Brown communities. Bruni is a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where she received a Master's degree in Environmental Science. Prior to Yale, she worked as a Research Assistant on an ethnobotanical study at the New York Botanical Garden where she focused on the cultural knowledge of medicinal plants of Latinx and Caribbean communities in New York City. Through her research and advocacy, Bruni hopes to bring forth a racialized and class-based understanding of the downstream effects of disasters on oppressed communities of color.