Events and Publications
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Climate Justice Deep Dive Workshops
Location: Rm ISC 3300, UMass Boston, MA,02125 and Online (Zoom).
Time: 3 pm (onsite) and 10 am (online)
Date: Bi-weekly from September to December 2023.
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Climate Justice Deep Dive was a semester-long collaborative learning space designed to support scholars at UMass Boston in addressing the intersections of climate change, inequality, and systemic racism that produce disproportionate climate impacts in Black, Indigenous, brown, and poor communities. This group worked together to strengthen and deepen their collective ability to advance climate justice in their research, scholarship, and partnerships.
Climate Journeys: Dialogues on Climate Migration Workshop
Location: UMass Boston Bayside,150 Mt. Vernon Street, 4th Floor, Room 454, Dorchester, 02125.​
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This event was the first in a series exploring critical questions at the intersections of inequality and climate change. ​
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Featured speakers:
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Chancellor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Pablo Bose, PhD, University of Vermont
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David Hernandez, PhD, Mount Holyoke
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Banu Subramaniam, PhD, Wellesley College
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Patrick Sylvain, PhD, Simmons University
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Farhana Sultana, PhD, Syracuse University
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Carlos Vargas-Ramos, PhD, Center for Puerto Rican Studies
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Hossein Ayazi, PhD, Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley
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Janelle Knox-Hayes, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Charles Venator, PhD, University of Connecticut
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Indigenous Knowledge and Approaches to Climate Change Workshop
Location: UMass Boston Bayside,
150 Mt. Vernon Street, 4th Floor, Room 454, Dorchester, 02125​.
This workshop explored the following questions: How does Indigenous Ecological Knowledge help address the climate crisis? How do we establish a renewed alliance between people and natural resources?
This event was the second in a series exploring critical questions at the intersections of inequality and climate change.
Featured Speakers:
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Casey Thornbrugh (Mashpee Wampanoag), United South & Eastern Tribes
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Vickie Sutton (Lumbee), Texas Tech University
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Mea Johnson (Apache), North American Indian Center of Boston
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Kristen Wyman (Nipmuc), Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Project
Climate Change and Health Workshop
Location:
UMass Boston Bayside,
150 Mt. Vernon Street, 4th Floor, Room 454, Dorchester, 02125
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This workshop explored the following questions: How does Climate Change affect health? How do we share research findings with media and policymakers to effect change?
Co-hosted by the Sustainable Solutions Lab and the Center for Environment, Climate Change, Communication, Conservation, Health, and Ocean Research (ECHO). This workshop was the third in a series exploring questions at the intersections of inequality and climate change.
Featured Speakers:
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Lisa Heelan Fancher, UMass Boston
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Min Hyoung Song, Boston College
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Madeleine Scammell, Boston University
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Nichola J Hill, UMass Boston
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Beth Daley, The Conversation
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Publications
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Rivera-Kientz, Katsyris, Rosalyn Negrón, Lorena M. Estrada-Martínez, Nyingilanyeofori Hannah Brown, Chidimma Ozor Commer, Mahesh Admankar, Jessica Lillquist, Nicholas Johnson, Racheal Inegbedion, and Paul Watanabe. 2024. "Community-Led Climate Preparedness and Resilience in Boston: New Evidence from Communities of Color" Climate 12, no. 9: 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli12090149
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Negrón, Rosalyn, David Hernández, Hossein Ayazi, Pablo Shiladitaya Bose, Nyingilanyeofori Brown, Elora Chowdhury, Janelle Knox-Hayes, Rajini Srikanth, Banu Subramaniam, Farhana Sultan, Patrick Sylvain, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Charles Venator-Santiago. “Critical Approaches to Climate Migration Research and Solutions,” Commentary. Local Environment: International Journal of Justice and Sustainability (under review).