Environmental Justice in Academia The Canopy from Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

In this episode, Penn undergraduate student and Environmental Humanities minor Yamila Frej interviews PPEH 2022-2023 Public Pedagogies Fellow Jane Robbins Mize. They discuss the importance of public engagement in environmental justice at universities, where scholarship has historically excluded our most vulnerable community members. Jane Robbins illuminates how academics—both students and scholars—can ensure that their work makes meaningful contributions to justice movements outside the university walls. They draw on examples of public engagement from the 2023 spring course “Remediating the Environment,” which Jane Robbins taught and Yamila took, as well as environmental justice activism on Penn's campus. Listen to get inspired and take action!



Credits

This interview with Jane Robbins Mize (University of Pennsylvania) was facilitated and recorded by Yamila Frej (University of Pennsylvania) and produced by Jasmine Erdener. 

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