Join us September 17th and 18th, 2025!

Bridging Communities with Hope: An Environmental Justice Conference for All

In person at UMass Boston with free food! You can also join us online.

Register for free here!

Gain insights and connect with high-level EJ leaders, legal professionals, community activists, and policy experts and discuss ideas, build partnerships and gain inspiration for EJ strategies.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Robert (Bob) Bullard, Father of Environmental Justice, Texas Southern University, Environmental Justice Movement advocate and environmental justice scholar

• Nalleli Cobo Uriarte, Environmental Activist and Storyteller Winner of the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize and was named on the 2022 Time 100 Next list.
• Dr. Marccus D. Hendricks, Former Senior Advisor for Climate and Community Resilience at the White House, University of Maryland
• Daniel Blackman, Former EPA Regional Administrator, Founder of Renaissance94 (Ren94)
• David Cash, Former EPA New England regional administrator
• Dr. Ben Chavis, Activist, author, journalist and chemist, President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Serves on the Board of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)
• Monique Harden, Former Director of Law and Policy and the Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
• Crystal Johnson, MA EEA Assistant Secretary of Environmental Justice

Hosted at UMass Boston by the Center for Climate and Environmental Justice Media, a collaboration between Living on Earth and UMass Boston School for the Environment

Check out our previous events:

Watch our interview with The Great Regeneration: Ecological Agriculture, Open-Source Technology, and a Radical Vision of Hope author Dorn Cox:

Watch our interview with Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden author Camille Dungy:

Watch our interview with The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration author Jake Bittle, with a special introduction from University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco:

Watch our interview with Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future author Danielle Clode:

Watch our interview with The Nutmeg's Curse author Amitav Ghosh:

Watch our interview with An Immense World author Ed Yong:

Watch our "Black Courage Upon the Sea" Juneteenth celebration of Robert Smalls:

Watch our interview with The Hawk's Way author Sy Montgomery, or listen to the edited audio

Watch our interview with Underwater Wild author Craig Foster, or listen to the edited audio

Watch our interview with Guardians of the Trees author Kinari Webb, or listen to the edited audio

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Sponsors for the above events include the UMass Boston School for the Environment, NH Audubon, New Hampshire Public Radio, the New England Aquarium, ProPublica, the UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School, and the Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston.