HBCU Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool launches for Justice40 Hubs at Texas Southern University
Mar 16, 2023
HBCU Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool launches for Justice40 Hubs at Texas Southern University
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 16, 2023
Contact:
Ginger LeBlanc | gingerl@dscej.org
Valerie Keys | vkeys@skdknick.com
Briana Augustus | briana.augustus@tsu.edu
HOUSTON, TX - Dr. Robert D. Bullard of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University and Dr. Beverly Wright of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice are continuing their collaboration for the just implementation of President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative with the launch of the HBCU Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool (HCEJST).
The Bullard Center convened a team of data and GIS experts from HBCUs led by Dr. David Padgett, to develop the HCEJST to supplement the government screening tool that excludes race. The experts are part of the Bullard Center, Deep South Center and HBCU Consortium Technical Support Team (TST). This team will be conducting training on the government CEJST and the HCEJST with 21 Justice40 hubs from 10 states to help them better understand how environmental data is collected.
On Tuesday, March 21, 2023, Drs. Bullard, Wright and Padgett will be available to speak with the press about the launch of the HCEJST tool prior to presenting it to J40 Hubs. Media is invited to see the tool in action to get a better understanding of its purpose.
WHO: Dr. Robert D. Bullard of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University and Dr. Beverly Wright of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
WHAT: Justice40 Initiative HCEJST Tool Launch
WHEN: Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 11:00 AM CT/ 12:00 PM ET
WHERE: The Sterling Student Life Center, President’s Lounge, 4th Floor
Texas Southern University
3100 Cleburne Street, Houston, TX 77004
Media Coverage: Media planning to attend in person are encouraged to RSVP by 12 P.M. on Monday, March 20, 2023. RSVP to briana.augustus@tsu.edu or (225) 588-5986.
About the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
The Robert D. Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University was launched in 2021 to address long standing issues of systemic inequality and structural racism that cause disproportionate pain, suffering and death in Black and other people of color communities. The Bullard Center works to promote environmental, climate, economic, energy, transportation, food and water and health justice. Texas Southern University is a student-centered comprehensive doctoral university committed to ensuring equality, offering innovative programs that are responsive to its urban setting, and transforming diverse students into lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and creative leaders in their local, national, and global communities.
About the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
Families in the Gulf Coast deserve to live in communities that are free from deadly air and are more resilient to climate change and extreme weather. The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) works to empower and engage communities to put environmental justice and equity at the center of all climate action. Led by environmental justice scholar and advocate, author, civic leader and professor of Sociology Dr. Beverly L. Wright, the DSCEJ uses research, education, and community and student engagement to advocate for policy change, lead health and safety training for environmental careers, develop social and emotional community wellness programs, and create new and environmentally healthy opportunities for the residents of communities disproportionately impacted by historic environmental injustice.