Environmental Justice, Environmental Science, GIS mapping
Daniel Klooster is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from UCLA and was a Fulbright Scholar (2015). His recent work with environmental justice students included mapping locations of warehouses in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Results of the project were included in a broader study presented to the Southern California Air Quality Management District which is considering new limits on warehouse expansion in the region.
Professor, Director, Department of Race and Ethnic Studies
University of RedlandsAsian Americans, Environmental Justice, hate violence
Keith Osajima is a professor and director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands. Now celebrating 15 years at the University of Redlands, he taught previously at the University of California, Davis, and Colgate University. Professor Osajima teaches core major courses in the Program such as 鈥淚ntroduction to Race and Ethnic Studies,鈥 鈥淩ace Theory鈥 and the 鈥淪enior Capstone Seminar.鈥 He also teaches courses on whiteness and anti-racism, environmental justice, race in higher education, and Asians in the United States. Professor Osajima has written numerous articles on Asian Americans in higher education, which cover span issues related to the politics of race in education, internalized racism, and the model minority stereotype. He has also written and conducted workshops on diversity issues in higher education.
Professor at the School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Arizona State University (ASU)Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Justice and Sustainability, Public Policy, Sustainability
Sonja Klinsky is an expert in economic adaptation and climate change, sustainability and public policy. She is an associate professor at the School of Sustainability and a senior Global Futures scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Professor Klinsky has been an observer to the UN framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations since 2009 which has been a foundation to her work with policy-science interface organizations. Prior to her position at ASU, Klinsky held post-doctoral fellowships with the Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Cambridge, and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions in Vancouver, Canada.
Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Arizona State University (ASU)Environmental Justice, Environmental Law, Science Writing, Sustainability
Karen Bradshaw is an expert on environmental law, wildlife advocacy and natural resources law. Bradshaw is a professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and is frequently mentioned in the mainstream media as a reliable source. Her articles have been recognized, through a peer-reviewed process, as the top articles in the field of environmental law, administrative law, land-use law and natural resources law. Her book, "The New Animal Rights: How Uncovering the Biological Origins of Property Can Save America's Wildlife," advocates for giving wildlife the right to own land to preserve biodiversity.
Professor of Practice, School of Law; Associate Director, PNW Just Futures Institute
University of OregonEnvironmental Justice, water access, Water Resources
Ala铆 Reyes-Santos is the associate director of the PNW Just Futures Institute for Climate and Racial Justice and founding member of the Oregon Water Futures Collaborative. Since 2020, she has done extensive community engagement work with tribal members, low income, rural, and BIPOC communities on water; environmental justice researcher and community engagement experience, with an emphasis on water resources. The author of 鈥淥ur Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles,鈥 Reyes-Santos is a cultural studies scholar devoted to the analysis of stories about kinship, solidarity, and betrayal in the midst of socio-historical violence, with an emphasis on the Black Diaspora and its connections with multiple communities. Her manuscript-in-progress, Oceanic Whispers, Secrets She Never Told, intervenes in conversations about restorative justice and community healing through a Black Caribbean epistemological lens. An award-winning teacher, Reyes-Santos received the 2015 Ersted Distinguished Teaching Award. She is a high priestess and tradition keeper of Caribbean Regla de Osha and regla conga, an Afro-descendant ceremonial practice that survived through cross-cultural exchanges in the islands; and supports efforts to revitalize Afro-Indigenous Caribbean traditional ecological and medicinal knowledges.
Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Justice, International Development
Dr. Vinka Oyanedel-Craver is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests lie in the area of emerging contaminants of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater treatment, as well as the development of novel water technologies. Her current research focus is on environmental nanotechnology, specifically on the behavior and application of nanomaterials in different ecological compartments and their use as antimicrobial compounds in point of use water/wastewater treatment in rural developing communities. Her research team has authored more than 45 peer-review publications.
Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
University of North Carolina at CharlotteEnvironmental Justice, green infrastructure, social-ecological systems, stormwater management, urban water
Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in social-ecological urban systems. She employs a range of approaches and perspectives from the fields of planning, engineering, social and environmental sciences. Her research centers environmental justice, green infrastructure planning, and relationships between people, place and the environment.
Hoover joined the department in 2021 as an assistant professor of environmental planning, where her projects explore green infrastructure planning, urban water quality, and environmental decision-making. Prior to joining the department, Hoover held postdocs at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), and the Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, OH. She is also the founder of EcoGreenQueen LLC, a company dedicated to teaching and expanding the knowledge and use of environmental justice frameworks and methods across research and practice.
Hoover earned her master’s and doctorate from the Interdisciplinary Ecological Sciences and Engineering program in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of St. Thomas, MN. Dr. Hoover is a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow, and a faculty affiliate with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability’s Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research site at Arizona State University.
Assistant Professor of Urban and Community Planning
University of North Carolina at CharlotteEnvironmental Justice, housing access, Latinx Communities, transportation planning, Urban Planning, Urban Studies
Michelle E. Zuñiga, AICP (she/her/ella) holds a PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy from the University of California, Irvine. Since 2012, Michelle has focused her research on Latinx communities particularly, low-income, immigrant communities and how they experience and respond to environmental injustice and threats of displacement. Michelle explores their perspectives and experiences in the context of planning processes and urban policy. In parallel, Michelle also researches the implementation and challenges of environmental justice land use policy that call for drastic changes to how planning is conducted and how residents are engaged.
Michelle uses qualitative tools, community engaged methods, and interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the multifaceted dimensions and complexities related to neighborhood change and environmental justice. Before turning to a full-time academic career, Michelle also worked as an environmental justice organizer in Denver, where she worked alongside residents advocating for mitigation and more engagement in transportation and environmental planning processes.