Catawba College to host community conversation on climate justice

Catawba College’s Center for the Environment is hosting a community conversation next week.

The event is the result of a partnership between the college, the local NAACP chapter, and the Reimagining America Project, a nonprofit looking to enact systemic changes to end racism. 

The conversation will center around climate change, but more specifically, climate justice.

Mercedes Quesada-Embid is an associate professor of environmental policy and advocacy and will be moderating the discussion. 

“Climate justice helps us to take a look very clearly and squarely at what are the structural systems that we have in place that have facilitated the progression to where we are today," she said. 

She says panelists will engage with the audience to discuss how environmental issues disproportionately affect communities of color, and people who are economically disenfranchised — but they will also focus on solutions.

The conversation will be held on Feb. 1 in Catawba’s Center for the Environment, Room 302 at 6:30 p.m. 

Amy Diaz covers education for WFDD in partnership with Report For America. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.