The Office of Environmental Justice in EPA Headquarters is launches the EJ and Systemic Racism Speaker Series
The Office of Environmental Justice in EPA Headquarters is launching the Environmental Justice (EJ) and Systemic Racism Speaker Series by featuring The Mapping Inequality Project on March 4, 2021 at 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST. This unique collaboration created a foundational resource for unprecedented research, education, organizing, and policy advocacy on redlining and current environmental challenges. It provides publicly accessible digitized versions of redlining maps for about 200 cities. This has already generated an explosion of trailblazing work in the area of EJ and systemic racism.
Project co-founders Robert Nelson, University of Richmond, and LaDale Winling, Virginia Tech, will discuss the genesis, philosophy, methodology, and impact of this game changing project. REGISTER NOW! Please share with colleagues and networks.
The objectives of this speaker series are:
Provide information on groundbreaking, cutting-edge work in science, policy and practice to strengthen the evidentiary link between historical inequities and current environmental conditions;
Inspire leaders and staff in communities, academia, business and industry, and civil society to think about how systemic racism relates to their own work by hearing from leading national policy experts, researchers and practitioners;
Align government leaders and staff with the leading work taking place in this area and create a cohesive environment for fruitful partnerships; and
Create intellectual ferment about dealing with systemic racism in a rigorous manner so that EPA and other environmental agencies can overcome their historical aversion to talking about race and systemic racism.
The series begins with a set of five sessions that thoroughly examine the relationship of redlining and current environmental challenges, particularly the climate crisis. A recent National Center for Civil and Human Rights webinar on EJ, redlining and the climate crisis provides a good overview of this subject. Future topics will include: Title VI and civil rights program, EJ research and analysis, rural inequities, and others. Registration information for each session forthcoming.
2021 Virtual Conference on Environmental Justice– March 17, 24, 31, 2021 (3:30-4:45pm) – This event will have three sessions: 1) What is Environmental Justice; 2) Supporting Public Access to Recreational Waters; and 3) Promoting Environmental Justice: The First Steps. For more information and to register, see https://watershedaction.org/2021-conference. Offered by the Watershed Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts.