For over 30 years the environmental justice movement has been fighting the disproportionate risks that pollution poses to low-income populations and communities of color. Now we know that the impacts of COVID-19 are also unequally distributed, with infection and fatality rates higher among communities with higher environmental stresses. Join us for a free, virtual discussion on Zoom with Academy experts and advocates as we examine the connections between the pandemic and environmental justice.
Moderator: Alexis Schulman, Dolan Fellow, the Academy’s Patrick Center for Environmental Research; Assistant Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Panel:
- Saleem Chapman, Deputy Director of the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability
- Lubna Ahmed, Director of Environmental Health at WE ACT for Environmental Justice in NYC
- Russell Zerbo, Advocate at the Clean Air Council
