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Cynthia Ferguson heads the new Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ).

Below: an educational video by Cynthia and her colleagues. Really illustrates Cynthia's leadership qualities. You can see why she's in charge of OEJ and its exploding field of climate criminology.

Cynthia's word-space:

"…the holistic approach to environmental justice…

…systemic problems…

…the concept of you know talking to those who are being affected is something that we're really trying to integrate into our work…

…because of the pandemic, it's really shone a light on the health disparities. Now we all know, everybody that works in the field already knew when they started talking about co-morbidities and other issues, we knew that African American communities were going to be hit hardest. And other communities of color…

[audio breaking up] enforcement avenues to make sure that at all levels of government linking environmental justice and climate justice – the time is I think right for the field to really explode…"