Environmental Justice Event Series
Learning from experts in the movement
Current demands for racial justice have put the spotlight on environmental racism—the fact that people of color and low-wealth communities so often bear the largest public health, economic, and environmental burdens including from the current COVID-19 crisis.
EDF is hosting a series of conversations with environmental justice experts who are leading the way to understand environmental disparities, their systemic causes and effective strategies to create change.
- Jump to session: Disparities and Impacts
- Legal and Policy Implications
- Effective Strategies and Innovative Models for Action
Disparities and Impacts
September 29, 2020
Moderator
Heather McTeer Toney, National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force
Panelists
- Deeohn Ferris, President & CEO, Institute for Sustainable Communities
- Dr. Francesca Dominici, Director of Harvard University's Data Science Initiative and Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Legal and Policy Implications
September 30, 2020
Moderator
Heather McTeer Toney, National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force
Panelists
- Marianne Engelman Lado, Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law School and Lecturer at Yale University
- Monique Harden, Assistant Director of Law and Policy and Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
Effective Strategies and Innovative Models for Action
October 1, 2020
Moderator
Heather McTeer Toney, National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force
Panelists
- Dr. John Cooper, Assistant Vice President for Public Partnership & Outreach and Director of Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University
- Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation