Environmental Justice & Systemic Racism Speaker Series
The Environmental Justice and Systemic Racism Speaker Series will illustrate how addressing systemic racism is highly relevant to EPA’s mission. This series explores how understanding and addressing systemic racism and the roots of disproportionate environmental and public health impacts is key to integrating EJ in the policies and programs of EPA and other environmental agencies to achieve environmental protection for all people.
The first five sessions will focus on redlining and current environmental challenges. Future topics will include: Title VI and civil rights program, EJ research and analysis, rural inequities, and others. Suggestions are welcomed. Registration information for each session forthcoming.
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Upcoming Sessions
No Sessions Planned at this Time.
Questions: Please contact Charles Lee (lee.charles@epa.gov) or Sabrina Johnson (johnson.sabrina@epa.gov).
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Previous Sessions
See below for details and meeting summaries of past Environmental Justice & Systemic Racism Series Speaker Series sessions.
| Date | Details | Recordings and Transcripts |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST | Highlighting The Mapping Inequality Project, a unique collaboration on redlining and current environmental challenges that provides publicly accessible digitized versions of redlining maps for about 200 cities. This project has generated trailblazing work in the area of EJ and systemic racism. Two of its founders will discuss the genesis, philosophy, methodology, and impact of this game-changing project. |
Recording of the Mapping Inequality Project Session (Captions in both English and Spanish; subtítulos en inglés y español) |
| April 6, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST | Reviewing a recent study on the correlation of redlined areas and the location of urban heat islands will discuss their participatory research on the spatial distribution of climate impacts, involving communities in measuring heat in cities. This interdisciplinary approach offers a compelling perspective on how scientists and residents seek to address disproportionate vulnerability emerging from climate change. |
Recording of the Redlining and the Climate Crisis Session (Captions in both English and Spanish; subtítulos en inglés y español) |
| May 5, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST | Learning about the Climate Safe Neighborhoods Partnership and how youth in two of Groundwork’s Trusts, Groundwork Hudson Valley, and Groundwork Richmond, VA, and other places are leading the way in working closely with residents and stakeholders to organize, mobilize, and effect systems change to make communities more resilient to extreme heat and flooding. |
Recording of Climate Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Session (Captions in both English and Spanish; subtítulos en inglés y español) |
| June 10, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST | Learning about the Pollution and Prejudice project and how CalEPA's racial equity team designed a set of tools to explore the connection between racist land use practices of the 1930s and the persistence of environmental injustice. Understanding how environmental conditions are informed by legacy land use practices helps CalEPA to ensure equitable access to clean air, water, and land for all Californians through policy development and implementation. |
Recording of the Pollution and Prejudice project Session (Captions in both English and Spanish; subtítulos en inglés y español) |