Speakers:
Jan-Michael Archer, CEEJH Doctoral Student (Moderator)
Lisa Ng, Doctoral Student, University of California-Berkeley Department of
Ethnic Studies
Ayo Wilson, Director of Clean Energy & Climate Justice, West End
Revitalization Association
Wawa Gatheru, Founder, Black Girl Environmentalist
Carlos Sanchez-Gonzalez, Youth Leader, Free Your Voice

This year marks 30 years since the 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, which was integral to the environmental justice movement as we know it today. While this year’s Symposium serves in part as a celebration of this historic event, we also must look forward to the future of the EJ movement and what it aims to achieve. In this session, youth leaders in the EJ movement reflect upon the legacy of environmental justice in the United States, the work and leaders that have preceded them, the impact of their work on advancing environmental justice, and their vision for the environmental justice movement into the 2020s and beyond. What lessons have been learned since the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit? How has the COVID-19 pandemic altered the environmental justice movement? What challenges and successes have they experienced as leaders in the EJ movement? What strategies and tools will be instrumental as environmental justice increasingly enters the public consciousness? Youth leaders will lead this reflection and provide perspective on the future of the EJ movement.

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