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YSE NewsProtecting the Rights of Climate Refugees, Listening to Indigenous Voices, and Ensuring a Just Transition to Clean Energy: Takeaways from the Global Environmental Justice Conference
October 21, 2022Highlighted by a keynote address by Georgetown Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on climate reparations, the annual Global Environmental Justice Conference explored difficult environmental justice issues including the growing scale of climate refugees, the burden food insecurity places on women, and implementing cultural preservation measures in climate action.
YSE NewsSwitzer Fellow Helping Disadvantaged Communities Lead Transition to Clean Energy
June 30, 2022Gabriela Rodriguez ’23 MEM has been named a recipient of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a prestigious program that supports future environmental leaders.
YSE NewsThe “Geballe” Era
June 13, 2022YSE Associate Dean for International Engagement Gordon Geballe is retiring after a nearly 50-year affiliation with the School and Yale. He is known for always keeping students at the center, his ability to build community and befriend everyone in the room, and his dedication to New Haven.
YSE NewsYSE Class of ’22: Lovinia Reynolds is Headed Home to Fight for Climate Justice
May 13, 2022Returning to her native Brooklyn, Lovinia Reynolds is graduating from YSE with an eye on climate justice in the largest city in the U.S.
YSE NewsYSE Class of ’22: Kristina Rodriguez is Focused on Preserving Coastal Ecosystems
May 10, 2022A childhood appreciation of South Florida’s dunes and mangroves led Kristina Rodriguez to become deeply invested in conserving the state’s coastal ecosystems for future generations.
YSE NewsLANDBACK Panel Addresses Importance of Indigenous Leadership in Land Reclamation and Conservation
April 12, 2022Restoring Indigenous power in land stewardship and co-management policies were at the center of a YSE-Wyss Foundation panel discussion that brought together Indigenous voices from across the country.
YSE NewsAlumna Receives Yale’s Highest Graduate Honor
April 8, 2022Dorceta Taylor ’85 M.F.S., ’91 Ph.D., one of the nation’s leading environmental justice scholars and activists, was recently named a recipient of the 2020 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, the highest honor Yale Graduate School bestows on its alumni.
YSE NewsNew Horizons Conference Highlights ‘Work to Be Done’ on Environmental Justice
April 7, 2022More than 800 people from 24 countries attended this year’s three-day virtual conference, a global conversation on justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion hosted by YSE that also serves as a platform for emerging environmental leaders who are historically underrepresented in the environmental field and/or committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field.
YSE NewsPandemic Shutdowns Give Window into Environmental Racism in California’s Air Pollution Policy
April 7, 2022Study finds that though air pollution is highly regulated in California, environmental policy as a whole is not protecting all communities in an equal way: Regulatory machinery has been preferentially protecting White, non-Hispanic people from exposure.
YSE NewsInfrastructure Inequality Is a Challenge to Urban Sustainability
April 4, 2022A first of its kind study focusing on infrastructure inequality finds that infrastructure inequalities are ingrained in the urbanization process.
YSE NewsNew Horizons Conference to Elevate Voices Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Environmental Field
March 23, 2022A line up of speakers from industry, government, NGOs, and the media, among other sectors, will share their expertise in environmental justice, institutional diversity, and other environmental topics at the annual conference.
YSE NewsQueering Environmental Justice
January 27, 2022In a paper published in the American Journal of Public Health, YSE authors Michelle Bell and Leo Goldsmith ’20 MEM lay out the case for a more inclusive environmental justice movement for the LGBTQ+ community, who are disproportionately affected by environmental exposures.
YSE NewsELTI Director Helps Define Political Ecology Playbook
January 26, 2022To address issues of equity and justice in worldwide efforts to advance restoration and conservation and deforestation, a new paper co-authored by YSE's Director of Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative Eva Garen outlines 10 principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes.
YSE NewsDr. Taylor to Address MLK Jr. and the Intersection of Civil Rights and Environmental Justice
January 13, 2022YSE Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Dr. Dorceta Taylor will address MLK Jr. and his work at the forefront of environmental justice issues at an upcoming panel in February.
YSE NewsA Marketplace Solution to Burning Crop Stubble Earns YSE Team Top Honors
December 10, 2021YSE students win international prize for new digital app that allows farmers to sell crop byproducts instead of burning them.