Melissa Miles (she/her) is an Environmental and Climate Justice advocate who began her career as a community organizer while living in an environmental justice community in Newark, New Jersey. She holds an MA in Anthropology from The New School, yet maintains that her knowledge of EJ is rooted in her lived experience, the…
Global health crises, misinformation and disinformation, and climate change are pressing global issues, impacting public health, mental health, environmental awareness, and social stability. To tackle these challenges, researchers are increasingly collaborating to build advanced tools to better understand the complex…
Join us as authors Ulla Berg and Aldo Lauria Santiago discuss their recent publication: Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, and Cultures with panel members Kathleen López and Melanie Plasencia. Moderated by Princeton University Professor of Sociology Patricia Fernandez Kelly.
Please join us on Thursday, December 5 from 5:00-6:30pm in Schultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall for an Environmental Policy Mixer! Come out for a fun evening of networking at the end of the semester and get to know grad students, researchers, and faculty who are working on environmental topics from scientific, engineering, and…
This talk will examine how current discourse, clinical interventions, medical technologies, and policy responses to the opioid epidemic are racialized in the U.S., highlighting the role of whiteness and racial capitalism. We will trace how technologies of whiteness operated to respond to rising overdose deaths among whites…
