BIPOC CLIMATE AND ENERGY JUSTICE PHDS
This is the first ever mapping of BIPOC scholars with PhDs or other terminal degrees who focus on climate and energy justice.
Please note: All information is self-reported. If you find an error, please email climate@donorsofcolor.org to report it.
Interested in learning more about the BIPOC Scholars Project? Contact Felicia Davis, Executive Director at HBCU Green Fund:
Are you a BIPOC Climate and Energy Justice-focused PhD or other terminal degree (within or outside of academia)?
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Shalanda H. Baker
Northeastern University
Areas of Speciality: energy justice, energy law and policy, indigenous rights, just transition
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 6
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Initiative for Energy Justice (which I co-founded and co-direct); Front and Centered, Reclaim Our Power Campaign
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Ivis Garcia
The University of Utah
Areas of Speciality: Asset based community development, housing, gentrification, disaster planning, evictions, homelessness, diversity, equity, and inclusion
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 20
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: ACSP Climate Action, Planners for Puerto Rico, Planners of Color Interest Group
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Marccus D. Hendricks
University of Maryland
Areas of Speciality: Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Climate Adaptation
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 4
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services and Charity Productions
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Manuel Pastor
University of Southern California
Areas of Speciality: Economics / Sociology
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 40
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: California Environmental Justice Alliance
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Garfield Hunter
University of Technology, Jamaica
Areas of Speciality: Urban planning, social equity, climate justice, sustainability.
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Transformative Climate Communities and displacement avoidance with Pacoima Beautiful, an EJ grassroots org in Los Angeles, CA
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Regan F. Patterson
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Areas of Speciality: Air quality, transportation
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, Ms. Margaret Gordon
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Maxine A. Burkett
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Areas of Speciality: Climate Change Law and Policy, Climate Justice, Climate Reparations Loss and Damage, Climate Migration, Climate Litigation, Climate Change and Colonialism
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 11
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, Jacqui Patterson; 350.org North America (climate reparations working group), Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
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Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg, III
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Areas of Speciality: Toxicology; Environmental Justice; Environmental Disparities; Sustainable Community Development; Food-Energy-Water Nexus
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 100
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Diana Hernandez
Columbia University
Areas of Speciality: Energy and housing as determinants of health
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 4
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: WE ACT
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Kartikeya Singh
SED Fund
Areas of Speciality: Climate, Energy, Innovation
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Center for Diversity and the Environment
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Martha Matsuoka
Occidental College
Areas of Speciality: environmental justice, equitable/just development, community-based research
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 50
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Raj Patel
The University of Texas, Austin
Areas of Speciality: Food Systems
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 20
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, Soils Food and Healthy Communities (Malawi)
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Nicola Ulibarri
University of California, Irvine
Areas of Speciality: water and energy governance, infrastructure governance, climate change adaptation, collaborative governance
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
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Darien Alexander Williams
MIT
Areas of Speciality: Urban Planning, EJ, Energy disaster
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 50
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Fight Toxic Prisons
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Fayola Jacobs
University of Minnesota
Areas of Speciality: Environmental planning
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: ACSP Climate Action, Planners for Puerto Rico, Planners of Color Interest Group
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Clara Irazábal
University of Maryland
Areas of Speciality: community development, housing, Latinxs, Latin America
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: KC Tenants
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Miriam Solis
University of Texas, Austin
Areas of Speciality: infrastructure, water, climate justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 6
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Greenlining Institute, Austin Equity Office
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Jacob Park
Castleton University
Areas of Speciality: Sustainability management/climate justice & business
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Environmental leadership program (served as a Board member and serving as a senior fellow)
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Tony G. Reames
University of Michigan
Areas of Speciality: Energy Justice, Public Administration, Environmental Justice, Sustainability
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 30
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Developing energy efficiency and water conservation programs with Friends of Parkside in Detroit, a public housing community organization.
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J. Mijin Cha
Occidental College & Cornell University
Areas of Speciality: Labor/climate coalitions, just transition, climate policy, climate/environmental justice movements
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: CEJA, SCOPE
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Joseph W. Dorsey
Patel College of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida
Areas of Speciality: Food Sustainability and Security, Environmental Policy
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
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Andrea Restrepo-Mieth
University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Speciality: Water politics and planning, metropolitan environmental planning in the Global South
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 4
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Jalonne L. White-Newsome
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Areas of Speciality: public health, climate change
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: WE ACT for Environmental Justice; Kingdom Living Temple; Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera
University of Colorado, Boulder; Just Environments Lab
Areas of Speciality: Environmental justice; Climate justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 12
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Central Coast Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, California Environmental Justice Alliance
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Kian Goh
University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Speciality: Spatial politics of urban climate change responses, urban movements for climate justice, urban resilience, urban design justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 100
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), Damaris Reyes, dreyes@goles.org
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Michael Méndez
University of California, Irvine
Areas of Speciality: Climate change, environmental justice, public policy, urban planning, sustainability, equity
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Central Coast Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, California Environmental Justice Alliance
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Silvia R. González
University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Speciality: Climate planning, neighborhood effects, inequality, gentrification, displacement, drinking water access and justice..
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Transformative Climate Communities and displacement avoidance with Pacoima Beautiful, an EJ grassroots org in Los Angeles, CA
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Myron Williams
Clark Atlanta University
Areas of Speciality: Plant microbe interactions, promotion of small-scale biofuel production
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 40
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Pan African Student Summit (PASS) 2011 & 2012 “The Sustainable Village I & II”
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MK Dorsey
Yale University
Areas of Speciality: Renewable energy; solar PV; energy finance; sustainability; climate change; climate justice; energy justice; environmental justice; environmental racism; STS; anthropology; forestry.
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 25
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: greenleadershiptrust.org/ Francisco Ollervides; http://www.verdenw.org/ - Alan Hipolito (former ED)
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Rachel Morello-Frosch
University of California, Berkeley; Sustainability and Health Equity Lab (S/HE Lab)
Areas of Speciality: climate justice, environmental justice, environmental health science, epidemiology
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 20
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: CA EJ Alliance (Gladys Limon), Asian Pacific Environmental Network (Amee Raval), Community Water Center (Susanna DeAnda)
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Sacoby Wilson
University of Maryland
Areas of Speciality: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, Environmental Health, Built Environment, citizen science, community science, community-based participatory research (CBPR), air pollution, climate change, exposure science, water quality monitoring, green infrastructure, geospatial tools, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs),
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 15
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: peer-reviewed publications on EJ only
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Michel Gelobter
University of California, Berkeley; Cooler
Areas of Speciality: Sustainability, climate, environmental justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 180
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: I wrote the first reports ever on climate and african-americans and climate and latinos in 2004. In doing so, we formed the environmental justice and climate change initiative that worked with all the major EJ networks. Tom Goldtooth at IEN was a major member. Since then, I've advised ej groups and researchers, but not written any reports in the area since then.
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Robert D. Bullard
Texas Southern University
Areas of Speciality: Environmental justice, climate justice, environmental racism, transportation, disasters, just recovery, environmental health, smart growth, sustainability, community resilience
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 100
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Co-Founder, HBCU Climate Change Consortium; Co-Chair, HBCU-CBO Gulf Coast Equity Consortium; Co-Chair, National Black Environmental Justice Network
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Carlos Martín
Urban Institute
Areas of Speciality: climate mitigation, climate adaptation, disaster policy, housing quality (inc. energy and water)
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 15
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With:
Colette Pichon Battle (GCCLP), Zelalem Adefris and Mayra Cruz (Catalyst Miami), Amee Raval (APEN), Ángela Andrar (CJA), Lauren Alexander Augustine (NAS Gulf Research Program), Atyia Martin (All Aces), Sona Mohnot (Greenlining), Jacqueline Patterson (NAACP), Kandi White (Indigenous Environmental Network), Tiffany Eng (CEJA), Diana López (SWU), Dr. Tony Reames (UM UEJL), Dr. Diana Hernandez (Columbia U), Dr. Robert Bullard (TSU), Dr. Denae King (TSU)
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Karen DeGannes
University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate School
Areas of Speciality: Renewable and distributed energy, equity & wildfire mitigation, asset management/infrastructure, utility asset sales, integrated renewable energy pilot design and implementation, corporate strategy, corporate risk analysis and management, just transition, climate mitigation and resilience, environmental and justice, ESG, corporate environmental sustainability, policy and program strategy for climate vulnerable communities, utility rate-design for climate sustainability, gas customer conversion pilots, workforce education and training for energy, corporate EJ and climate resilience grant-making, environmental sociology, justice and emergency management, utility regulatory proceedings, policy and legislative analysis, entrepreneurship.
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (CA) - Ms. Margaret Gordon, Co-Founder/Director
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Aradhna Tripati
University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Speciality: Climate, environment, sustainability, geochemistry, conservation, stewardship, environmental justice, green science, earth science, ocean science, resilience, education
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 100
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Founder, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, Founder Climate and Sustainability Innovation Center for Scientific and Social Transformation; co-producer - Storytelling As Medicine: The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science; Environmental Justice Working Group; Environmental Science Without Borders; No Time For Silence: A Call to Action for an Anti-Racist Science Community from Geoscientists of Color; Cultivating Leadership for Change and Justice in the Geosciences: A Virtual Workshop Series Sponsored by Geoscientists of Color and Allies
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Vernon Morris
Arizona State University
Areas of Speciality: Atmospheric Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry, Air pollution/Air quality, Geosciences
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Pan African Student Summit (PASS) 2011 & 2012 “The Sustainable Village I & II”
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Charisma Acey
University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Speciality: urban planning, equitable development, poverty alleviation, human right to water and sanitation, food justice, biogas and alternative household energy, wildfire vulnerability, environmental justice, public participation, community engaged research
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
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Chandler Puritty
UC San Diego
Areas of Speciality: Ecology / Intersectional Environmental Education, Blackness and STEM, Environment and Identity, Environmental Justice, Climate Change Biology, Climate Science Communication, De-colonial Science and Education, Environment and Spirituality
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 25
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Kari Fulton
Georgetown University
Areas of Speciality: Climate justice, Regenerative economics, climate policy, community environmental justice education
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 115
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: Climate Justice Alliance- Angela Adrar Green Door Initiative- Donele Wilkins
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Leonardo Esteban Figueroa
The New School
Areas of Speciality: Environmental Politics, Climate Politics, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies, Critical and Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Subaltern Approaches to Systemic Change
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 20
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Prakash Kashwan
University of Connecticut
Areas of Speciality: Environmental and Climate Justice; Global Climate Governance; Climate Geoengineering; Global Conservation; Human Rights
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
Example of Report from Work With BIPOC-led Org
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Abigail Martin
University of Sussex
Areas of Speciality: Political economy, political ecology, democratic politics & environmental justice in low-carbon energy transitions
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
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Jack Zhou
Climate Advocacy Lab; Duke University
Areas of Speciality: Political communication, political psychology, political behavior, collective action, advocate and organizer training
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
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Gregory D. Goins
North Carolina A&T State University
Areas of Speciality: Environmental Biology
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 200
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Raya Salter
Fordham University School of Law, Cardozo Law School, NY Renews Climate Justice Coalition
Areas of Speciality: Energy and Climate Justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
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Linda Shi
Cornell University Department of City and Regional Planning
Areas of Speciality: Climate adaptation, climate (in) equity and (in) justice, land governance and policy
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 9
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Zach Valdez
NIST
Areas of Speciality: Biofuels, Science Policy, Advanced Manufacturing
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
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Isabel Carrera Zamanillo
Stanford University
Areas of Speciality: DEI in higher education, food justice, community-based mapping
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 15
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Frances Roberts-Gregory
Northeastern University; UC Berkeley
Areas of Speciality: Feminist political ecology; gender and climate change; environmental, energy, and climate justice
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Dorceta E. Taylor
Yale School of the Environment
Areas of Speciality: Environmental Justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 200
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: UPROSE, NAACP
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J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida
Union of Concerned Scientists
Areas of Speciality: Climate change, water resources, and justice
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Geeta Persad
The University of Texas at Austin
Areas of Speciality: Modeling global-scale interactions between climate change and air pollution
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
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Francisco Dóñez
US Environmental Protection Agency
Areas of Speciality: Air pollution from heavy duty diesel equipment
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
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Suzanne Singer
Native Renewables
Areas of Speciality: Energy access/energy justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
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Jennifer Taylor
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Areas of Speciality: Sustainable Development, Participatory capacity building, Underserved small farm populations, organic farming systems/agroecology farm practices, wellbeing, policy
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Josiah Hester
Northwestern University
Areas of Speciality: Computer Engineering; Sustainable computing systems
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 20
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V. Miranda Chase
Babson College
Areas of Speciality: Climate Politics, Climate Justice, Environmental Politics, Amazon region, Indigenous and Traditional Communities, Latin American Politics, Political Economy
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Bindu Panikkar
The University of Vermont
Areas of Speciality: Environmental health, Environmental Justice, Science, Technology and Society Studies
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
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Doris Oke
Northwestern University
Areas of Speciality: Sustainable energy systems, low-carbon transportation fuels
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 4
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Shumaila Bhatti
SUNY ESF
Areas of Speciality: Environmental communication and participatory processes
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
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Adeniyi Asiyanbi
University of British Columbia - Okanagan
Areas of Speciality: Climate Change Mitigation, Carbon Removal, Wildfires, Climate Justice
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Shangrila Joshi
The Evergreen State College
Areas of Speciality: Climate and Environmental Justice; Political Ecology; South Asia
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
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Karen Bailey
University of Colorado Boulder
Areas of Speciality: Social science, climate adaptation
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 8
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Nirav S.Patel
Cornell and Rutgers University
Areas of Speciality: FEW Nexus and UN Sustianable Development Goals
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
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Benjamin L Preston
RAND Corporation
Areas of Speciality: Climate risk management
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
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Elly Rostoum
Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Speciality: Energy & Environmental Security, Global Security Studies
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 40+
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Esther Min
University of Washington
Areas of Speciality: Environmental health, mapping, community-academic partnerships
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Marshall Shepherd
University of Georgia
Areas of Speciality: Hydrometeorology, Urban Climate, Weather Extremes, Weather-Climate Risk and Vulnerability, Science Communication, DEI
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
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Reginald Archer
Tennessee State University
Areas of Speciality: Geospatial Information Systems/Sciences, Environmental Change Analysis
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 10
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Mintesinot Jiru
Coppin State University
Areas of Speciality: Soil and Water quality, environmental contaminants, climate change, watershed management
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 8
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Jamie Haverkamp
James Madison University
Areas of Speciality: Climate Adaptation; Vulnerability; Environmental Justice; Political Ecology; Indigenous Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Environmental Anthropology
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
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Fushcia-Ann Hoover
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
Areas of Speciality: environmental justice, water, urban spaces, green infrastructure, black geographies
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
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Jared Enriquez
University at Albany
Areas of Speciality: climate-based relocation; disaster recovery; municipal climate action; water policy; ecological restoration
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
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Grace Ha
University of California, Davis
Areas of Speciality: Marine ecology, scalable solutions for climate work, intersection of environmental justice and climate science
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Mennatullah Hendawy
Orient-Instiut Beirut, Max Webber Foundation
Areas of Speciality: Urban planning, Justice, mediatization, Visual communication, power, theory building
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Vanessa Deane
New York University
Areas of Speciality: political economy of disasters; climate justice; local governance
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 5
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Colette Pichon Battle
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
Areas of Speciality: Climate Disaster, Recovery, Planning
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 25
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Eric Tate
The University of Iowa
Areas of Speciality: Social vulnerability to natural hazards
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 4
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Georgetown University
Areas of Speciality: Social/political philosophy
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
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Kim Waddell
University of South Carolina
Areas of Speciality: ecology, natural resource management, natural hazard mitigation
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
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Keston Perry
The University of the West of England
Areas of Speciality: Climate justice; finance; racial capitalism; energy and development; climate policy
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 45
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C.N.E. Corbin
Portland State University
Areas of Speciality: Urban Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Urban Greenlining/Sustainability/Resilience and Climate Change Policy and Practices
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 3
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Erick Jones
University of Texas
Areas of Speciality: energy systems; energy poverty; climate systems; mathematical programming
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 1
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Solomon Bililign
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Areas of Speciality: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Air Quality, Urban heat
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 12000
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Ife Kilimanjaro
Howard University
Areas of Speciality: climate crisis (general), environmental justice, earth healing
Example of BIPOC-led Org. Worked With: NAACP ECJ (Jacqui Patterson)
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Mila Turner
Florida A&M University
Areas of Speciality: environmental sociology, critical environmental justice, AA environmental history
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 100
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Destenie Nock
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of Speciality: Energy System Modeling and Planning, Energy Equity Metrics
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 4
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Tracey Osborne
University of California, Merced
Areas of Speciality: Climate Justice
# of Students of Color in Program/Mentoring: 2
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Juan Declet-Barreto
Union of Concerned Scientists
Areas of Speciality: Hazards geography, GIS, urban heat islands, climate change vulnerability
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Adrienne Hollis
Union of Concerned Scientists
Areas of Speciality: Environmental justice, climate justice, public health and toxicology
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Astrid Caldas
Union of Concerned Scientists
Areas of Speciality: Climate impacts, adaptation, and resilience
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Sikina Jinnah
UC Santa Cruz
Areas of Speciality: Global Climate Governance, Climate Justice, Solar Geoengineering Governance
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Fatemeh Shafiei