Paving a Greener Path: the Intersection of Infrastructure and Environmental Justice

A panel held with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, Dr. Eric Avila, a professor of History and Urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of several books on the history of urban America in the twentieth century, Dr. Nicky Sheats, the director of the Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research at Kean University and has defined the primary mission of the Center as providing support for the environmental justice community, and Dr. Diana Hernandez, tenured Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her work focuses on the social and environmental determinants of health and examines the impacts of policy and place-based interventions on the health and well-being of socioeconomically disadvantaged populations.