Goals of the workshop

(1) Showcase ongoing EJ research work in the US and Africa at Lincoln U, Howard U, Tennessee State U, Xavier U, Medgar Evers College and Penn State University;

(2) Develop a set of principles/best practices for working with communities;

(3) Examine educational, research, and community activities among all participants to identify shared areas of interest;

(4) Propose research activities to seek collective funding for EJ work as a network of universities.

Agenda

Friday, March 29, 2024

8:20 - 8:30             Sign-in, Coffee, Introductions

Sen Chiao

8:30 - 9:00 Opening Remarks

   Greg Jenkins

   Rubin Patterson

9:00 - 10:45 Topics on EJ research at participating institutions 

(12-minute lightning talks)

   Anna Hull, "Food Sustainability and Food Justice at Lincoln University"

   David Padgett, "The HBCU Environmental Justice Technical Team (HEJTT)"

Shizuka Hsieh, "Lessons from air quality monitoring with community partners in DC"

  Greg Jenkins, "Addressing EJ in Africa through air quality sensors"

                                John Tharakan and Charles Verharen, "Educating Engineering for Ethical

  Sustainable Development and Social Justice"

                                Ida Djenontin, "Environmental Justice in Biodiversity Conservation & 

                                Restoration: Are conceptualizations & definitions of forests of high interest  

                                inclusive of diverse perspectives and voices?"

  Morewell Gasseller, "Engaging Students and the Community in

   Air Quality Monitoring Using Small PM Sensors (online)"

   Amy Yeboah Quarkume

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Community-academic nexus (opportunities, challenges, priorities, barriers -

   building trusting partnerships/principles, best practices, participatory  

  research models)

   Moderators: Greg Jenkins, Sen Chiao

11:30 - 12:15 Vernice Travis-Miller, Executive Vice President, Metropolitan Group

  Washington DC  (on-line presentation)

12:15 - 1:00 Terri Adams  (lunch will be served) 

1:00 - 1:45 Jacob Burney, Division Director, Environmental Justice Grants (EPA) 

1:45 - 2:30 EJ and Redlining Panel session - Crosscutting student and faculty

• How much do you know about Redlining and its links to EJ?

• People talk about the lack of trees in redlined areas, being warmer and planting trees.  Is that all that redlining is about?

• What types of research studies should be going on in Redlined areas in relationship to EJ?

Howard University (Kane Samuel, Amy Yeboah Ouarkume)

Tennessee State University (David Padgett)

Penn State University (Danielle Dedeaux)

2:30 - 3:45 Hands-on activity -

   Students and faculty from E3 and Interdisciplinary Studies depts/ArcGIS        

   Online (participants are encouraged to bring their laptops)

   David Padgett

3:45 - 4:00 Report back from hands-on activities

4:00 - 4:45 Design of Youth storytelling in EJ spaces

Mark Ortiz

5:00 - 6:00 Student lightning talks

Day 1 adjourn

Saturday, March 30th, Day 2 (Howard University or HU Beltsville Campus)

8:30 coffee

9:00 - 10:00 Building an interdisciplinary university network (undergraduate /graduate

and faculty activities, trusting partnership)

Moderator: Greg Jenkins

10:00 - 11:00 Brainstorm on EJ funding opportunities (Emerging areas of EJ)

11:00 - 12:00 From Environmental Justice to Climate Justice and follow-up activities at

   Penn State

12:00 - 12:30 Next step action plan 

12:30 Adjourn