
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.

Book: Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City
Dr. Malini Rangathan is an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at AU. With a background in political ecology and geography, she researches urban environmental justice and studies the economic and political drivers of environmental racism and environmental casteism. Particularly, she studies how caste and race have shaped water and sanitation access, climate […]
Article: Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in [...]
From East India to the United States, the history and present reality of the movement for farmer parity is analyzed in a new paper published by American University School of International Service Provost Associate Professor Dr. Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and activist colleagues. Titled “Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in agricultural policy,” […]
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

Nicholas R. Micinski
Assistant Professor in the Department of Peace, Human Rights, and Cultural Relations

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