Public Presentations
The Latino Cultural Center’s (LCC) Climates of Inequality Virtual Presentation Series in Fall 2020 hosted Chicago region environmental and climate justice leaders whose work focused on front-line communities that are impacted by environmental pollution, climate change, and COVID-19. The presentations in Fall 2021 and Fall 2022, were extended to environmental and climate justice advocates across the country and abroad. Leaders discussed the intersection of ECJ with immigration, border surveillance, superfund sites, labor, community response and advocacy, and more.
Students in Cabrera’s Fall 2020, 2021, and 2022 ECJ course (LALS 495/ ANTH 494/ MUSE 400) facilitated the post presentation conversations with the ECJ leaders.
Archived Presentations | Fall 2023 [Zoom Videos on YouTube]
Archived Presentations | Fall 2022 [Zoom Videos on YouTube]
- September 6th with Frank Ettawageshik (United Tribesof Michigan)
- October 18th with Claudia Navarro (WeCount!, a South Dade Florida-based worker's center)
- November 15th with Brenda Gutierrez Mora (Foodlink for Tulare County) and Kassandra Hishida (San Joaquin Valley Matriarchal Council for Agroecology)
Archived Presentations | Fall 2020 [Zoom Videos on YouTube]
- September 16th with Edith Tovar & Juliana Pino (LVEJO)
- September 30th with Dr. Antonio López
- October 7th with Ian Zeitlin (Sunrise Movement)
- October 14th with Oscar Chacón (Alianza Americas)
- October 28th with Amalia NietoGomez (Alliance of the SouthEast) and Olga Bautista (Alliance for the Great Lakes)
- November 11th with Jessie Fuentes
- November 18th with Cheryl Johnson (People for Community Recovery)
Archived Presentations | Fall 2021 [Zoom Videos on YouTube]
- September 29th with Todd Miller (Author of Storming the Wall; Build Bridges, Not Walls)
- October 13th with José Bravo (Just Transition Alliance)
- November 3rd with Professor Ricia Anne Chansky and Graduate Students Natalia M. Betancourt Malave and Aleyshka Estevez Quintana
- November 10th with Maria López-Nuñez (Environmental Justice and Community Development at Ironbound Community Corporation)