
Climate and Sustainability
As the climate changes due to human activities, our projects are focused on how society can adapt to live in a manner that has less of an impact on the natural environment.
CECE Announces New Partnership with the Center For Environmental Filmmaking
CECE is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Center for Environmental Filmmaking (CEF) which will be creating content as a part of our Workforce Development and the 4Rs project this year. CEF Executive Director Maggie Stogner and Associate Director Larry Engel will lead a team of students in producing short documentaries that highlight […]CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Speaks on Extreme Heat and Health
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was invited to join a live news forum with journalist Cesar Miguel Rondón, broadcast simultaneously on TVV Network and Éxitos 107.1 FM Miami, to discuss headlines about regions projected to face dangerous levels of extreme heat by 2050. In her remarks (timecode 1:14 to 1:30 […]CECE Explores Community Resilience at Climate Week NYC’s House of Scientista
On Thursday September 25th, CECE co-sponsored the House of Scientista event at Climate Week NYC. The event, hosted by Scientista, discussed the future of food, philanthropy, and communications during climate and political change. As people arrived at the event, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, elicited insight from four leaders in community resilience via red carpet interviews. […]CECE at Climate Week NYC 2025
Several CECE faculty and affliates will be attending Climate Week next week in New York City. Below are a few events that they will be participating in. Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice Screening The Center for Environmental Filmmaking‘s Professor Maggie Stogner will be screening her documentary “Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice” virtually […][Recap] WCL hosts panel on Climate Change Opinions of the International Court of Justice and [...]
By: Michael Culbert The conjunction of human rights and climate change was first brought up at Buenos Aires Climate Change Conference in 2004 and laughed at as a realistic framework… well “no one is laughing now.”1 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) both took steps this July […]CECE Announces New National Science Foundation Grant
We are delighted to report that Professors Scott Freeman and Mike Alonzo were just awarded a 2.5 year grant from the National Science Foundation to support their research. The grant builds on their previous research, which was supported by the CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program.Final Student Reports Complete Inaugural DataCorps Fellowship
The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project wrapped up its first summer of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. At the beginning of the summer, the DataCorps fellows identified individual topics they would like to research. Each fellow then designed one to two questions on their topics to be included in the project’s service corps member survey. […]CECE Whitepaper No. 3: Workforce Development and the 4Rs in California and Vermont
How are service corps programs supporting communities as they build resilience, respond to and recover from disaster, and work to reduce their emissions? This paper provides insights into who is working in such service corps programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities. The study […]CECE Whitepaper No. 2: Mobilizing Young People to Help Communities Recover from Disaster–A [...]
How are service corps programs supporting communities as they respond to and recover from disaster? This paper provides insights into who is working in such programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how do they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities post-disaster. The study integrates data collected from members of three different […]Workforce Development & the 4Rs Wraps Up Site Visits in Los Angeles with the DataCorps Fellows
Author: Kaitlin Dellaposta The city of Los Angeles in southern California is well known for its glamour and beautiful scenery, but also for its dangerous wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs research team along with the DataCorps Graduate Fellows visited the third and final site of the summer in the city of Los Angeles. Here, […]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 Fellows
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, […]
Climate and Sustainability Experts

Abeer Y Al-Eryani
Energy Transition Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Environment, Community, & Equity

Robert Albro
Research Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies

Michael Alonzo
Associate Professor, Environmental Science

Julie A. Anderson
Associate Program Director, Masters of Science in Sustainability Management (MSSM)

Valentina Aquila
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Science

Barbara Balestra
Director, Environmental Sciences Teaching Laboratory, Micro-Lab.

David Bartlett
Senior Professorial Lecturer, Department of Management

Kristine Beran
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science

Robin Broad
Research Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Jenn Brown
Program Manager, Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy

Claire Brunel
Associate Professor, Department of Politics Economics and Governance

Anny Cárdenas
Assistant Professor, Biology

Ernesto Castañeda
Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies

C. Anne Claus
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Ken Conca
Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Nicole Darnall
Arlene R. and Robert P. Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in Sustainability

Parthiban David
Senior Associate Dean, Kogod School of Business

Rosalind Donald
Assistant Professor, Public Communication

Todd Eisenstadt
Research Director, Center for Environmental Policy

Larry Engel
Associate Director Center for Environmental Filmmaking

Dana R. Fisher
Director, Center for Environment, Community, & Equity

Scott Freeman
Senior Lecturer, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Julie A. Gonzalez
Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, CECE

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
Provost Associate Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Edward Guetti
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Matthew Hartings
Associate Professor, Chemistry

David Hunter
Professor of Law, WCL Program on Environmental and Energy Law

Sarah Iverson
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

W. Chris Jayko
Assistant Director, Center for Environment, Community, & Equity

Kyra Jones
Operations Manager

Victoria Kiechel
Senior Professorial Lecturer, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Chelsea Koch
Assistant Professor, Arctic Ecogeochemistry Lab/Department of Environmental Science Assistant Professor, Arctic Ecogeochemistry Lab/Department of Environmental Science

Mariana Koutsopoulos
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Science

Megan Litke
Director of Sustainability, Office of Sustainability

Maya Livio
Assistant Professor, Climate, Environmental Justice, Media and Communication

Stephen MacAvoy
Associate Professor, Department of Biology

Andrew Martinez
Assistant Professor, Economics

Magnolia Mead
CECE Fellow & Research Assistant

Gabriella Meltzer
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Health Studies

Sara Nawaz
Director of Research, Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal

Simon Nicholson
Co-Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy

Jennifer Oetzel
Research Professor, Department of Management

Marcos A. Orellana
Director, Global Toxics and Human Rights Project

Angela Pashayan
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Claudia Persico
Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy

Natalia Piland
CECE Collaborating Researcher, Interdisciplinary Scientist

Malini Ranganathan
Associate Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Jesse Ribot
Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health

Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Professor, Department of Anthropology

Judith Shapiro
Director of Graduate Studies, Dept of Environment Development and Health

Garima Sharma
Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Sauleh Siddiqui
Professor, Environmental Science

William John Snape, III
Professor and Director, WCL Program on Environmental and Energy Law

Stacey Snelling
Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities Lab

Maggie B. Stogner
Executive Director, Center For Environmental Filmmaking

David J. Vázquez
Associate Professor, Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies

Rachel Weiss
Program Manager, Center for Environment, Community, & Equity

Paul Yoo
Assistant Professor, Finance