In a presentation on Martin Luther King Jr.’s environmental activism, Dr. Dorceta Taylor makes a case for the Yale community doing more for environmental justice.
On Friday, Dorceta Taylor ENV ’85 GRD ’88 GRD ’91, senior associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at the Yale School of the Environment, presented on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s environmental justice activism and the importance of an intersectional perspective on environmental studies to a lecture hall full of Yale students, faculty and other community members.
Taylor has had a long and successful career studying environmental activism and sociology, and much of her research centers on the race, class and gender dynamics inherent in environmental activism. Taylor’s presentation focused not just on what environmental justice is, but on how King advanced the cause of environmental justice through his work. Fransha Dace GRD ’27 explained that environmental justice is a method of making sure everyone is protected.
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