Join us for a lecture by Dr. Michael Méndez!
As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adapting to the increased threat of wildfires. Such disasters are expected to become more frequent and severe. In this lecture, Dr. Méndez explores why it is crucial to understand how these events amplify existing inequalities, and how to lessen the resulting harms, in particular for the most stigmatized populations, such as undocumented Latino/a and Indigenous migrants.
Michael Méndez is an assistant professor of environmental policy and planning at the University of California, Irvine and Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (through a National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award).
He previously was the Pinchot Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of the Environment.
This talk is part of the Critical Environmental Justice series organized by Professors Karla Peña and Michael Murphy.
Co-sponsored by LLAS and the UEP Remsen Bird Fund
