Environmental Equity and Justice
Recognizing the ways that less-privileged communities, frontline communities and communities-of-color have been disproportionately harmed by environmental pollution and granted limited access to environmental goods and services, our projects direct attention to the need for more equitable and just solutions.
COPOut Episode 1: Platforming Activism
In the inaugural episode of the COPOut Podcast, Dr. Dana R. Fisher talks with climate leaders about how to platform activism and empower civil society in the struggle to address the climate crisis. Tune in to hear from Ingmar Rentzhog from We Don’t Have Time, Jamie Minden from This Is Zero Hour, and Magnolia Mead […]
2025 CECE Faculty Research Incubator Grant: Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) and [...]
We are excited to announce this year’s selected CECE Faculty Incubator proposal, titled “Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) and the Multidimensional Inequalities of Deployment in Refugee and Host Communities.” This interdisciplinary project represents a collaboration across departments within the School of International Service (SIS) and beyond, bringing together Drs. Claire Brunel (SIS–PGE), Mike Alonzo (CAS–Environmental Science), […]
[Article] What’s radical? Comparing how climate activists and the general public perceive social [...]
A team from CECE has published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that compares perspectives about social movement tactics between climate activists and the general public. Read the abstract below and and Click here to read the article. As the climate crisis worsens, activists have employed a wide range of tactics to draw attention to […]
CECE Team Surveys NoKings Day 2.0 Participants in Washington D.C.
On October 18th, a coalition of left-leaning political groups coordinated a second national day-of-action to declare that the US has no kings. Almost 3,000 events took place across the US during NoKings Day 2.0 with early estimates predicting that over 5 million people had joined the day of action in the US (with many more […]
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Speaks on Demography and Climate Disasters
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was featured on the podcast The Demographer’s Diary, hosted by Dr. Coda Rayo-Garza, to discuss how demographic research shows the human dimensions of climate disasters. In the episode titled, “Demography and Climate Disasters,” Dr. González explained how population data such as age, housing, health, language, […]
[Recap] The Importance and Potential of Environmental Storytelling
The Center for Environment, Community, and Equity (CECE) co-hosted a panel of environmental storytellers alongside the Center for Environmental Filmmaking on October 14, 2025 bringing in three experts to talk about their experiences in the field and the insight they bring to the future of climate communication. Joe Romm, Senior Research Fellow at the University […]
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 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 […]
Tracking Activism and Resistance at the No Kings Day of Action
Over the past 6 months, protesters have flooded the streets across the country to voice their concerns about the Trump Administration and its policies. Multiple large-scale, coordinated days of action organized by groups such as Indivisible and more informal networks like 50501 movement have taken place. The most recent day of action was called No […]
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 […]
Environmental Equity and Justice 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
Valentina Aquila
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Science
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
Lauren Carruth
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Environment, Development & Health
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
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
David Hunter
Professor of Law, WCL Program on Environmental and Energy Law
Sarah Iverson
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
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
Maya Livio
Assistant Professor, Climate, Environmental Justice, Media and Communication
Marquise McGraw
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Public Administration and Policy
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
Research Assistant Professor, CECE
Malini Ranganathan
Associate Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health
Jesse Ribot
Professor, Department of Environment, Development, and Health
Ezra Rosser
Professor of Law, WCL Program on Environmental and Energy Law
Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Professor, Department of Anthropology
William John Snape, III
Professor and Director, WCL Program on Environmental and Energy Law
Maggie B. Stogner
Executive Director, Center For Environmental Filmmaking
David J. Vázquez
Associate Professor, Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies
Paul Yoo
Assistant Professor, Finance
Pauline Zerla
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security, SIS