“We review over 60 “visioning documents” authored by non-profits and frontline community members in the United States. These visions of energy justice – authored by the actors and communities that have historically organized energy justice programming – are largely absent in the energy justice literature, but they provide guidance on research and policy gaps. This article provides a review and thematic coding of visions for a just energy future, which…
Anais Roque
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio roque.25@osu.edu Fellowship Project: Food, Energy, and Water Insecurity in the Context of Compounding Disasters Dr. Anaís Delilah Roque Antonetty (she/her/ella) is an environmental social scientist and disaster anthropologist that studies resource insecurity and health in the Anthropocene. Currently, her research agenda is interested at how households and communities experience, prepare for and respond to food, energy, and water insecurity…
Ruzmyn Vilcassim
Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Health Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health Birmingham, Alabama ruzmyn@uab.edu Fellowship Project: Potential adverse impacts of vaping on perinatal health in women who use e-cigarettes during pregnancy. Ruzmyn Vilcassim is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UAB School of Public Health. His research primarily involves investigating the health effects associated with exposure to air pollutants, with a…
Betty Lin
Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University at Albany, State of New York Albany, New York Blin6@albany.edu Fellowship Project: Legacy effects of historical redlining on Black maternal life course heavy metal exposure and maternal-infant health. Dr. Betty Lin’s research focuses on clarifying why children with social disadvantage experience disparities in mental and physical health outcomes. She is especially interested in how social and environmental factors related to social disadvantage (e.g., stress…
Leah Schinasi
Assistant Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Dornsife School of Public Health Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lhs36@drexel.edu Fellowship Project: “Extreme heat, associated adverse health outcomes, and barriers to heat-health protective behaviors in restaurant and service workers and managers in Philadelphia, PA” Leah Schinasi is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. She is an…
Michael Anastario
Assistant Professor Health SciencesNorthern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona michael.anastario@nau.edu Fellowship Project: Exposure to heavy metals among Indigenous people who inject methamphetamine Michael (Mike) Anastario is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University. Mike is a sociologist who draws on his research experience with ethnographic and quantitative methods to investigate how sequential phenomena concerning human-chemical interactions shape and reflect rural health disparities. He is currently focused on developing…
Max Aung
Assistant Professor Division of Environmental Health at Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, California maxaung@usc.edu Fellowship Project: PFAS exposures, social factors, and bioactive lipid pathways to estimate antecedent risk profiles of depressive symptoms Dr. Max Aung is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Environmental Health at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also co-director of the EH MATTERS program at USC. Dr. Aung…
Stephanie Eick
Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia stephanie.marie.eick@emory.edu Fellowship Project: Cross-sectional study assessing sociopolitical stress Stephanie Eick is an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist by training. Her research focuses on the health effects of environmental chemical and non-chemical (i.e., psychosocial) stressors during pregnancy. She has a particular interest in joint effects and understanding how non-chemical stressors can amplify the harmful effects of chemicals.…
Courtney Roper
Assistant Professor Department of BioMolecular Sciences The University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi clroper@olemiss.edu Fellowship Project: Building Community Air Quality Research Capacity in the Mississippi Delta Courtney Roper is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Assistant Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Mississippi’s School of Pharmacy. Her research group is focused on understanding air quality, particularly in the rural South. Through a combination…
Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne
Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health New York City, New York yov2000@cumc.columbia.edu Fellowship Project: The role of environmental reparations in mitigating environmental racism Dr. Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Yoshira is an alumna of the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship. Her…