Publications

Diversifying the U.S. Climate Movement (2019)

This report summarizes the barriers for climate action for people of color, their perceptions of climate change, and strategies that environmental organizations can take to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Diversifying the U.S. Climate Movement: Four Interviews (2019)

Interviews with four experts in the environmental field about their perceptions of diversity in the climate change movement. 

To Change Everything, We Need Everyone: Belonging, Equity, and Diversity in the U.S. Climate Movement (2023)

Centering Equity in Climate Resilience Planning & Action (2022)

This monograph introduces principles and best practices for centering equity in climate resilience planning and action. A collaboration with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Climate Resilience Toolkit. 
This dissertation examines challenges for people of color in the U.S. climate movement and what organizations can do to become more diverse, inclusive, and equitable.  The dissertation contains literature review, results from surveys and interviews, and recommendations for best practices. 

Become a JEDI Master: Journey Toward a More Equitable Future (2020)

This open-source JEDI Master Toolkit is a free JEDI resource that will aid organizations in creating and sustaining institutional change. The toolkit consists of: Two 90-minute seminars on Demystifying Diversity and Climate and Environmental Justice; Twelve JEDI Community Building Exercises; A detailed guide for conducting an equity audit, with recommendations for external auditors; Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Resource Library with links to free, accessible information. 

The Green to Gold Business Playbook (2010)

This book provides guidance and strategies for businesses to integrate environmental sustainability and social responsibility into their core operations and strategies

The Case for Environmental Advocacy (2021)

The opinion piece underscores the lesson from 2020 that collective crises necessitate collective solutions and a combination of scientific insights and advocacy efforts.

Carbon Pricing: Correcting Climate Change’s Market Failure (2018)

This paper highlights how achieving a carbon price in the United States will require building political will by mobilizing the public through grassroots activism.

Webinars

Environmental Advocacy Webinar Series (2020)

Diversity and the Environment Webinar Series (2020)

The diversity webinar series provides education on diversity in environmental studies and promote the participation of minority groups in the environmental field by highlighting the barriers minorities face in the environmental field and strategies for improving diversity and inclusion in research, education, and practice.
The environmental advocacy webinar series presents activists and scholars leading solutions to environmental problems through advocacy.

To Change Everything,
We Need Everyone (2023)

A 25 minute recording of my dissertation defense on April 17, 2023. 

Climate Change's Equity Challenge (2022)

This presentation examines the demographics of the U.S. climate movement and differences between White and BIPOC climate activists based on a survey of 1,003 climate activists. In addition, it covers the historical context for lack of diversity, why diversity is important for climate action, and how we can foster a movement with more belonging and justice for all.

Bibliographies

Climate Change
and Racial Justice

Climate Change and Coronavirus

Climate Change
and Mental Resilience