Environmental and Climate Justice in Puerto Rico: Scholarship and Praxis

Environmental and Climate Justice in Puerto Rico: Scholarship and Praxis

A Conversation with Ruth Santiago Moderated by Prakash Kashwan

When: October 25, 1pm – 3:30pm.

Where: Student Union #312

Ruth Santiago is a lawyer and an environmental justice advocate who works with Comité Dialogo Ambiental, Inc., a community group for volunteer residents primarily from Salinas and Guayama, in southeastern Puerto Rico. For an extensive profile of Ruth’s work, see: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/jobos-bay-community-activist/

Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.

This event, which is open to faculty and graduate students with a deep interest in questions of environmental and climate justice, is co-sponsored by El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies and the Human Rights Institute. The event adds to the series of climate justice conversations at the University of Connecticut.

For questions, please email prakash.kashwan@uconn.edu