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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, […]
Three New Students Added to CECE Graduate Certificate
CECE is proud to announce the three new additions to the Graduate Certificate for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE2). The three students are joining the initial cohort who 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 […]
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 […]
Data Corps Gradute Fellowship Program Application is Now Open
Applications are now open for CECE’s new DataCorps Graduate Fellowship Program starting in the Summer of 2025. The fellowship provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about activism and engagement centered around disaster response and recovery, as well as gain hands on experience in data collection and evaluation of disaster-related service corps programs and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Happy New Year from CECE
CECE would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2025. We are excited to continue growing our research and look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead! If you are interested in supporting CECE, please click here for more infomation.
CECE Annouces DataCorps Graduate Fellowship
CECE will inaugurate its new DataCorps Graduate Fellowship Program in the Summer of 2025. The fellowship provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about activism and engagement centered around disaster response and recovery, as well as gain hands on experience in data collection and evaluation of disaster-related service corps programs and activism. To be […]
Why Aren’t the Presidential Candidates Talking Much About Climate Change? – Recap
Why is climate change not a bigger issue in the 2024 electoral campaign? The Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act were some of the nation’s most successful legislative achievements of the last decade, and they were all initiated also by the executive […]
Position Announcement: CECE Postdoctoral Fellow
Job Description: The School of International Service at American University (AU) invites applications for an eighteen-month Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Postdoctoral Fellow in Civic Environmentalism. The Post-Doctoral fellow will work on the Addressing Climate Through Our Nation’s Service Corps Program under the project’s Principal Investigator, Professor Dana R. Fisher. We seek a […]
CECE Announces William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant
CECE is excited to report a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The grant will support expanded work on the ‘Climate in Our Nation’s Service’ research project. The funds will expand the CECE team’s capacity to pilot a new climate-focused curriculum and build meaningful indicators to quantify the climate-related work being undertaken […]
Call for Proposals CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program
The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity is delighted to announce a Call for Submissions to our 2024-2025 Faculty Research Incubator Program. We are inviting interdisciplinary teams of scholars to submit short proposals for projects to be developed during the academic year (MAXIMUM: 2 pages including references). By the end of the summer, teams are […]