Research Showcase - ANT364: Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
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Dr. Ingrid Waldron is the HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University. Author of There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary of the same name and was co-produced by Waldron, actor Elliot Page, Ian Daniel, and Julia Sanderson and directed by Page and Daniel. Dr. Waldron is the founder and Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project), co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ), and co-founder of the Anti-Environmental Racism Coalition.
Students from ANT364 will offer brief presentations on their work with community partners this fall.
Partners include: Canadian Environmental Law Association, Climate Emergency Unit, Indigenous Climate Action, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Small Change Fund, Toronto Nature Stewards, and Water Watchers.