Environmental Justice (Tallahassee 2009)

ASEH Annual Conference

Friday-Saturday, February 27-28, 2009

Sponsors:

• Environmental Justice, the journal
• Center for Environmental Justice and Equity, Florida A&M University
• Department of Geography, Florida State University
• Anonymous donation to ASEH

The Friday morning session will include a roundtable discussion led by environmental justice scholars and activists, and Friday afternoon will be devoted to a hands-on demonstration of GIS applications.  We will then visit an off-site location to map an area. Saturday morning we will visit Florida A&M University’s Center for Environmental Justice and Equity.

Lunch will be provided. Admission is free but you must sign up ahead of time - See ASEH’s online conference registration form.

Friday morning speakers:

Richard Gragg, Director, Center for Environmental Justice and Equity, Florida A&M University. For more information, see:

http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=environmentalscience&p=ESICenters

Sylvia Hood Washington, UIC School of Public Health, author of Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 and other publications; editor-in-chief of Environmental Justice

For more information, see:

http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=259

Peggy Shepard,

Executive Director, We Act for Environmental Justice, New York; recipient of MacArthur Genius Grant and recipient of Rockefeller Award for community activism. For more information, see:

http://www.weact.org/Home/tabid/162/Default.aspx

Sacoby Wilson, Institute for Families and Society, University of South Carolina

For more information, see:

http://www.sc.edu/

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Director, Center for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy, University of Notre-Dame

For more information, see:

http://www.nd.edu/~kshrader/