The Impact of Eliminating DEI Programs on Climate Justice

About this episode

Dr. Laura Pulido discusses the impact of eliminating DEI programs on climate justice and the importance of confronting racial violence for achieving racial justice.

Dr. Laura Pulido, Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon’s Center for Environmental Futures, is our guest. Dr. Pulido discusses cultural memory, the current efforts at the federal level and across the country to erase it, and why we cannot achieve racial justice without honestly confronting a past rooted in racial violence. She also describes the Trump administration’s elimination of environmental justice programs and explains what these ch...

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Laura Pulido

Topics covered

• DEI programs
• climate justice
• racial justice
• cultural memory
• environmental justice

Keywords

• DEI
• climate justice
• racial justice
• cultural memory
• environmental justice
• Trump administration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oregon, Trump administration

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