Author: CECE
CECE Post Doc Shares Insights on Upcoming Hurricane Risks to Latino Communities
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by journalist Johani Ponce for a series of Spanish-language news outlets covering the 2025 hurricane season and its impact on Latino communities across the U.S. In these interviews, Dr. González explained how federal funding cuts, lack of language access, rising living costs, and […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Continue Site Visits in Utah with the DataCorps
Author: Cici Akuley Nestled in the Mountain West region of the United States, rural Utah is known for its breathtaking mountainous landscapes. Nevertheless, residents must also contend with a wide range of natural disasters that include droughts, floods, and wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project research team, along with our DataCorps fellows, visited Richfield, […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Kicks Off Summer 2025 Site Visits with DataCorps
Author: Michael Culbert The New Orleans area is racked with a variety of environmental challenges. Much of the area is below sea level, its position on the Gulf Coast is prone to intense hurricanes, and the combination of high humidity and high temperatures leads to substantial heat-related threats. The CECE research team kicked off our […]
CECE Post Doc Speaks on Health Risks from Pollution and Effects on Vulnerable Communities
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at American University’s Center for Environment, Community, and Equity (CECE), appeared on Telemundo’s Planeta Tierra in a coast-to-coast news segment to discuss the critical public health impacts of air pollution on vulnerable communities. During the segment, Dr. González explained how recent environmental rollbacks threaten clean air protections, […]
CECE Cohort Building: Environmental Justice and Community Connections
On April 18, members of the Certificate of the Environment, Community & Equity (CECE2) cohort, together with faculty and staff of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity (CECE), attended a performance of the environmental justice-themed play “cullud wattah” at Mosaic Theater in Washington, D.C. The play explores the Flint, Michigan water crisis, offering a […]
[Recap] CECE Colloquium Series – Activism and Social Movements
On Monday, March 31st CECE’s Director Dana Fisher was joined by SOC’s Rosalind Donald for the final CECE colloquium of the semester. Fisher and Donald focused the discussion on their work related to activism and social movements. Fisher presented on her newest research, which focuses on protests. She is particularly interested in what factors are driving people to protests […]
CECE Postdoc Talks NOAA Budgets Cuts With Spanish Speaking Media
Dr. Julie A. Gonzalez, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by reporter Johani Carolina Ponce about the potential impacts of proposed budget cuts to NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration). The discussion focused on how these reductions could affect public safety, climate research, and disproportionately impact vulnerable communities that rely on NOAA’s services. […]
Meet CECE’s Civic Engagement and Activism Postdoctoral Fellow Arman Azedi
In January CECE welcomed our Civic Engagement and Activism Postdoctoral Fellow Arman Azedi. We are grateful to have Arman join our team and look forward to seeing his great work at CECE. We sat down with Arman to get to know him a bit better: Where were you before you arrived at AU? I recently completed […]
[Recap] Sustainability Symposium
On Thursday, March 27th CECE and the Office of Sustainability hosted the Sustainability Symposium where we celebrated the depth and breadth of sustainability scholarship on campus. Faculty from across campus participated in three panel discussions sharing the relationship between Sustainability and The Civic Life, Community Building, and Service. Megan Litke, Director for the Office of […]
CECE Annouces Inaugural Graduate Certificate Cohort
CECE is proud to announce the inaugural cohort of the Graduate Certificate for Environment, Community, & Equity. The cohort will be trained with the knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. The culmination of the certificate will be a capstone report focused […]
[SIS Event] 2025 Nancy Weiser Ignatius Lecture on the Environment
The School of International Service (SIS) is thrilled to welcome Katharine Hayhoe, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy in Public Law, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University, to deliver this year’s Ignatius Lecture. Don’t miss the chance to hear about her work in community-based planning and campaigns to address […]
[Article] Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing)
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, recently published an Opinion piece in The Hill (co-authored with Professor Hajar Yazdiha from USC). In the OpEd, they write about the radicalization of climate activism and what the climate movement can learn from the Civil Rights Movement. Click here for the full article.