Description:
Environmental Justice 101 will take participants on a brief, interactive journey through the past, present, and future of environmental justice challenges and triumphs in the United States. Topics covered in this webinar will include:

• Essential environmental justice definitions
• Cumulative environmental burdens resulting from structural and systemic barriers
• Disproportionate health and environmental risks and effects experienced by minoritized racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups
• Grassroots organizing and policy changes leading to improved equitable access
• Resources to utilize for taking action in your own community
• Paths to integrate environmental justice into sustainability in the future