About the Initiative
The Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative at Wake Forest University is a Mellon Foundation funded research and pedagogical project that brings together students, scholars, activists, journalists, and public officials in a multi-pronged effort to imagine, design, and develop a humanistic Science and Technology Studies curriculum that places at its center environmental and epistemic justice in critically examine how and in what ways race and regimes of racial knowledge shape and inform our scholarly practices, public policies, and normative concerns.
“The ultimate goal of this initiative is to cultivate a new generation of students and scholars who understand that a complex knowledge of race and processes of racialization are critical to comprehending and responding to our current environmental crisis.”
“All people are entitled to equal environmental protection regardless of race, color, or national origin. Environmental justice is the right to live and work and play in a clean environment.”
– Robert D. Bullard
Environmental Justice Pioneer and Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University
Institute
Learn more about our signature environmental justice summer institute
Applications are now open for the Environmental and Epistemic Justice 2025 Summer Institute. The deadline to apply is February 28, 2025.
Programs
Learn more about our diverse environmental and epistemic justice programs
People
Learn more about the diverse group of Wake Forest University environmental justice scholars
2024 Mellon EEJI Summit
Headlines & Footnotes:
Environmental Justice in an Age of Planetary Crisis
Please visit our YouTube channel to view all the panels.
News
Sanitation blues in Alabama’s Black Belt
November 22, 2024
This week, we’re on the road in Alabama. Environmental Justice reporter Danny McArthur looks at wastewater issues in the Black Belt, reporting that sanitation is a struggle for people who live in manufactured homes.
Alabama Black Belt’s sewer crisis a tougher fix for residents in manufactured homes
November 21, 2024
Willie Perryman pulls up to his manufactured home in Letohatchee, Alabama. He was down at his church, helping distribute food, but had to come back to meet with the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Program (BBUWP), a local nonprofit visiting his home to check out his sanitation situation.
Washington state farm workers worry about boom in legal foreign workers
November 14, 2024
The H-2A program might grow under Trump and mass deportations
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Award-winning journalist and director of @WFUEEJI Melba Newsome is a finalist for a 2025 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center @selc_org. Congratulations Melba! |
Meet our 2025 Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award finalists
The Southern Environmental Law Center is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 Phillip D. Reed Environmenta…
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Join Us in #NewOrleans fo the 10th Anniversary HBCU Climate Change Conference March 5 to 9, 2025. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to learn, connect, and make a difference in the fight against climate change! #EnvironmentalJustice http://dscej.org/ccc-2025
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