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Environmental Justice, Science and Technology, MIT

Semester: Spring, 2025

Introduces foundational principles of environmental justice and presents the history of the environmental justice movement and how the movement connects to research, including community engaged research. Explores how scientific and technological tools, such as earth observation technology or geographical information systems (GIS), can be used to better understand and address environmental justice issues. Analyzes how emerging engineering approaches to climate change and environment may affect environmental justice and injustice. Enables students to engage in group projects connected to local environmental justice issues. Aims to spur institutional conversation on how environmental justice and community-centered approaches can provide a framework for STEM education, research, design, and innovation.

Environmental Justice, Science and Technology: Massive Open Online Course, MIT

Semester: Fall, 2024:

Over the past few decades, scholars have documented how people of color and other socio-economically marginalized groups around the globe experience a disproportionate burden of environmental challenges. This pattern of unequal exposure to air pollution, contaminated water, and corresponding health risks, as well as habitat loss and disrupted livelihood due to natural disasters and climate change, is known as environmental injustice. The field of study working to address these challenges is referred to as environmental justice (EJ).

My students and I at UMass Boston, Spring, 2024

Environmental Justice, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Semester: Spring, 2024:

Environmental justice is defined by the state of Massachusetts as the equal protection and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies and the equitable distribution of environmental benefits. This course provides an overview of environmental justice as an aspect of U.S. environmental policy. The goal of the course is to give students the ability to develop and articulate informed opinions about environmental justice, to understand how the concept came into use, and to think critically about measuring and solving environmental justice problems. The course uses written assignments, case studies, and role-playing exercises to help students develop the analytical skills necessary to tackle this topic.ENVSTY 364L and UPCD 364L are the same course.

The UMass, Boston Quad, Spring 2024

Composition and English as a Second Language (ESL) Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2012-2022

I taught a variety of composition and ESL courses at UMASS Boston to immigrant and international students for approximately 10 years.

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