Events

[CANCELLED] Race, Place, and Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Community Activists

Mar. 27, 2023, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
Location:

CCMPR, Main Building

Interactive discussion and workshop on how BIPOC, migrant, and working-class communities from the Hudson Valley to Los Angeles are organizing to combat extraction and displacement, and how they're moving resources and people to drive an equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

Free & open to the public.

Nalleli Cobo, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, is an activist whose grassroots work helped shut down residential oil drilling sites and initiated the phasing out of the largest urban oil field in the United States. As the co-founder of the South Los Angeles Youth Leadership Coalition, she will share her story of how her community holds the city of Los Angeles accountable for breaches in the Environmental Quality Act.

Jordan Alexander Williams works alongside members of the Rise Up Kingston Food Justice Circle, and the Kingston Emergency Food Collaborative, to nurture local food systems and uplift local foodways that bring forth BIPOC food sovereignty. They are also the Lead Facilitator and Program Manager for Environmental Leadership Program’s Core Fellowship Programs.

side-by-side headshots of Jordan Alexander Williams and Nalleli Cobo
Jordan Alexander Williams and Nalleli Cobo