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EPA Environmental Justice and
Systemic Racism Speaker Series:
Features
the Climate Safe Neighborhood Partnership
Redlining data was key to
Groundwork Trusts’ community organizing efforts to secure climate
provisions in Richmond, Virginia’s master plan, green
infrastructure in Elizabeth, NJ, and other public policy advances.
Linking evidence of structural racism to current environmental
conditions provides a powerful tool for communities working for
transformative change. Learn about the Climate
Safe Neighborhoods Partnership and how youth in two of
Groundwork’s Trusts, Groundwork Hudson Valley, and Groundwork
Richmond, VA, and other places are leading the way in working
closely with residents and stakeholders to organize, mobilize, and
effect systems change to make communiti es more resilient to
extreme heat and flooding.
Speakers:
- Cate Mingoya,
Groundwork USA
- Melissa Guevara,
Groundwork Richmond, Virginia
- Victor Medina,
Groundwork Hudson Valley
- Moderated by Charles Lee, Senior
Policy Advisor for Environmental Justice,EPA
Date
and Time: May 5,
2021, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Register
Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-safe-neighborhoods-partnership-tickets-148489944421
For more information, contact
Charles Lee (lee.c...@epa.gov)
or Sabrina Johnson (johnson...@epa.gov).
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