By Aanya Dhruv My name is Aanya Dhruv, and I am a 10th-grade student at the Nueva School in San Mateo. My goal is to support communities affected by environmental injustice through solidarity and allyship. How do I plan to achieve this? By conducting EJ workshops and making students aware…

By Eric Bear California’s in the midst of a wildfire crisis. Learning from the history, culture, and needs of the Karuk tribe is part of the solution. From September 26th to October 7th, the first Indigenous women-led Women-in-Fire Training Exchange (WTREX) took place along the Salmon and Klamath rivers in…

By Cole Dill-De Sa CCAs are revolutionizing the way Californians get energy. But their implementation throughout California’s counties are following a concerning trend. How can we fix this? For many decades, energy distribution in California has been dominated by a handful of privately owned companies. Most notably, these are Pacific…

By Natalie Cross This blog post is abbreviated from a much longer research paper published via StoryMaps. In order to view the whole story and access music videos/sources follow this link. Music has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember. Whether it be dancing…

By Evan Kanji This is a heavily abbreviated version of a full multimedia project on structural racism and reparations in the Benton Harbor water crisis. You can find the full project, which includes more details and an additional piece and set of interviews on reparations, at this link. Less than…

By Shan Huang This blog post was written by a recipient of our Summer 2021 Environmental Justice Graduate Student Research Fellowship. On March 15th, 2019, in responding to the Fridays for Future international movement, more than a thousand teenagers in Hong Kong skipped their classes and went on a strike…

By Alexis Wilson This blog post was written by a recipient of our Summer 2021 Environmental Justice Graduate Student Research Fellowship. When I began my PhD program at Stanford in 2019, I had previous research experience working on issues related to forest ecology, drought, and climate change. I loved the…

By Ivy Manna Business loans. Savings accounts. Risk insurance. These basic financial services seem mundane, commonplace, and even unremarkable to many — perhaps something one might see plastered on promotional pamphlets at their local banking branch, that would not merit even a second glance. Rarely does anyone call loans, savings…

By Nora Hennessy and Sita Syal This blog post was written by a recipient of our Summer 2021 Environmental Justice Graduate Student Research Fellowship. This summer we set out to understand the transportation needs of low income and communities of color in Sonoma County. The DIVE research group formed a…