Assistant Professor Environmental and Health Sciences Department Spelman College Atlanta, Georgia nosborne@spelman.edu Fellowship Project: Water insecurity framework Na’Taki Osborne Jelks is an assistant professor at Spelman College. She also is the manager for Community and Leadership Development Programs for the National Wildlife Federation and chair of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, an organization committed to ensuring environmental justice in southwest and northwest Atlanta’s African-American neighborhoods. An environmental engineer by training,…
JPB Fellow Marccus Hendricks Joins White House Council on Environmental Quality
The White House Council on Environmental Quality has tapped Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Marccus Hendricks, to serve as a Senior Advisor for Climate and Community Resilience on the inaugural Environmental Justice team. A one-year appointment through the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Hendricks will support the development of federal policies, initiatives and efforts that advance place-based strategies and solutions related to water, hazard…
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Dr. Tony Reames: Remaining Optimistic About Energy Justice
NCSEA is excited to feature JPB Fellow Dr. Tony Reames, Deputy Director for Energy Justice at the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Reames was appointed to this position in the Office of Energy Justice Policy and Analysis in the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity by the Biden Administration in June 2021. He is responsible for developing a research and policy agenda around understanding energy burdens on low-income communities and…
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Three JPB EH Fellows have been appointed to HEI Research’s Environmental Justice Oversight Panel
HEI has established an Advisory Council and an Oversight Panel, to advance HEI’s environmental justice (EJ) work. Council and Panel members have expertise in environmental justice, environmental health, community engagement, and air pollution monitoring or modeling, among other areas of expertise. The Oversight Panel is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee, including JPB Fellows from Cohort I Diana Hernandez, Madeleine Scammell and Christina…
A Path to Sleep Equity
Sleep is fundamentally necessary for life, yet racial and ethnic groups are disproportionately affected by poor sleep health and sleep disorders. A growing body of research helps establish that sleep health disparities affecting racial and ethnic groups are a substantial public health problem. We must continue to work to identify and understand the causes, extent, and implications of unequally distributed sleep problems in America in order to intervene. Shorter sleep…
Veronica Helms Garrison
Social Scientist Analyst U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Office of Research Evaluation and Monitoring Program Monitoring and Research Division Washington, DC www.linkedin.com/in/veronica-helms-garrison-6849434b veronica.e.garrison@hud.gov Veronica Eva Garrison is a government researcher (Analyst and Team Lead; Data and Research) with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development & Research, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Monitoring. Veronica joined the Federal…
New Article: Petro-Security State Power and the Imaginaries of Extremism: An Analysis of U.S. Critical Infrastructure Trespass Bills Targeting Anti-Pipeline Advocacy Movements
Petrochemical pipelines have taken center stage in public debates about the impacts of resource extraction dependencies and calls for greater participation in environmental governance. However, these concerns can run counter to the interests of the petrochemical industry and state security imaginaries that frame critics as threats. These imaginaries are evident in a suite of critical infrastructure (CI) trespass bills introduced by U.S. state legislatures implicating the activities of anti-pipeline protest…
Black communities burdened by air pollution may finally get answers
For Naeema Gilyard and other residents of cities in south Fulton County — a mostly Black area west of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport — the air they breathe has been a worry for years. Since 2018, an illegal landfill located near homes, churches and two schools has repeatedly caught fire, spewing thick black smoke into the air. Despite investigations by state and federal environmental regulators and multiple judges’ orders to clean up the dump,…
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Michael Garvey
Economist Office of Energy Justice Policy & Analysis, Office of Economic Impact & Diversity United States Department of Energy Washington, DC www.energy.gov/diversity michael.garvey@hq.doe.gov Dr. Michael Garvey is an economist at the U.S. Department of Energy working in the Office of Energy Justice Policy & Analysis. Currently, Michael liaisons between DOE and the offices awarding solar and wind renewable energy projects to implement the aims of President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative. Previously,…
Katherine Alfredo
Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, Florida kalfredo@usf.edu Fellowship Project: Using a Risk Cup approach to evaluate vulnerabilities associated with community water systems in the US Dr. Katherine Alfredo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Dr. Alfredo has extensive international experience that includes two US Fulbright Fellowships. Prior to joining the faculty at USF, she was…