Roundtable on Environmental Justice

Monday following the Curtis Bay Toxic Tour, Loyola students will have an opportunity to plug into roundtable discussions about the ongoing work in South Baltimore. One table will focus on legislation and policy, another will focus on alternative housing and the third table will focus on environmental justice and youth education.

These three roundtables will allow students to explore the ongoing work in South Baltimore. There will be popular education and activities to get them thinking about their own interests and talents and how this can feed into the grassroots organizing work.

If you're interested in this event, please consider registering for the Toxic Tour on Friday (2/21). Attendance at both events is not required but strongly encouraged.

Bio:

Nicole Fabricant is Professor of Anthropology at Towson University in Maryland. She teaches courses on resource extraction, environmental justice, and the climate crisis. Her most recent book, Fighting to Breathe Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore (University of California Press 2022) looks at the cumulative impacts of industrial stationary toxic facilities in South Baltimore, Maryland. The book follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality of industrial expansion. The book received the APLA book award for 2024 best critical ethnography in political anthropology.

Her new research is a political economy of coal (from extraction to export) looking at what solidarity looks like across the entire supply chain as activists' build coalitions across regional space and state lines to push for Just Transition from Appalachia to Baltimore.