Speaker: Cliff Villa, professor, University of New Mexico School of Law
For good reasons, when activists and scholars speak of “environmental justice,” the first word that often comes to mind is race. But over time, concerns for environmental justice have expanded well beyond race, now to include all people who may be disproportionately harmed from environmental degradation and also to consider broader experiences of harm. This presentation will explore what environmental justice can or should mean today, against a backdrop of current political hostility, but full of hope for the future, drawing upon lessons from the past.