Description: Environmental justice activists and organizations in Detroit have been tackling environmental racism for decades, with national and local awareness increasing in the past several years due to the Flint water crisis. Several environmental justice leaders featured in the MLIVE documentary serve as members of, and make substantial contributions to, the work of the M-LEEaD Center. M-LEEaD has also partnered with many of these organizations to work together to address pressing environmental injustices in Southwest Detroit. Michelle Martinez from the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition serves as a member of M-LEEaD’s Stakeholder Advocacy Board and is featured in the documentary. MEJC’s focus on air pollution and climate change is featured powerfully in the documentary.
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APHA: Mobilizing Public Health to Achieve Environmental Justice
Description: The final webinar in APHA's Advancing Racial Equity series raised awareness of the ongoing impact of environmental racism on the health and well-being of Black, Indigenous and people of color in the U.S.
Speakers: Welcome: Kate Robb, MSPH, Senior Program Manager, Environmental Health, APHA Center for Public Health Policy;
Moderator: Crystal Dixon, MPH, MCHES, NBC-HWC, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Education, UNC Greensboro;
Presenters: Donna Chavis, Senior Campaigner, Fossil Fuels, Friends of the Earth; Donele Wilkins, Founder and CEO, Green Door Initiative; Sacoby Wilson, PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Director, Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park; Michele Okoh, JD, Senior Lecturing Fellow of Law, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
