This virtual event is available for ticket holders to replay for one week
SUMMARY
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UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Dr. Robert Bullard
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The Quest for Environmental and Racial Justice
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Bullard is widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement
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Award-winning author of 18 books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, climate justice, community resilience, regional equity and more
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Recipient of the United Nations Environment Program’s Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award
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This presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. David N. Pellow, UC Santa Barbara Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project
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Part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Race to Justice series
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Ticket holders will be able to replay this event for one week
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Wednesday, April 21 / 5 p.m. Pacific / Virtual
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$10 General Public and FREE for UCSB Students (registration required)
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Tickets/Info: (805) 893-3535, www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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“Whether by conscious design or institutional neglect, communities of color in urban ghettos, in rural ‘poverty pockets’, or on economically impoverished Native-American reservations face some of the worst environmental devastation in the nation.”
– Dr. Robert Bullard
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Dr. Robert Bullard, discussing The Quest for Environmental and Racial Justice on Wednesday, April 21 at 5 p.m. Pacific.“America is still segregated and so is pollution,” says Bullard, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University. With more than four decades of action advocating for racial equality and fair environmental and urban planning, Bullard is widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement. He was founding director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University and is the award-winning author of 18 books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, climate justice, community resilience, regional equity and more. In 2019, Apolitical named him one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy and, in 2020, the United Nations Environment Program honored him with its Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award.
This presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. David N. Pellow, UC Santa Barbara Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project.
The virtual event is part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Race to Justice series.
ABOUT
DR. ROBERT BULLARD
Heralded as the father of environmental justice, Robert D. Bullard is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University. He is founding director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, co-founder of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Climate Change Consortium and former Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, also at Texas Southern University.
Dr. Bullard is the award-winning author of eighteen books on sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, community resilience and more. His latest works include Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina,Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States, and The Wrong Complexion for Protection, and his 2000 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality, is a standard text in the environmental justice field.
Among his many accolades, Bullard was the first African American recipient of the Sierra Club John Muir Award and was named one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century by Newsweek, one of 22 Climate Trailblazers by the Golbal Climate Action Summit, and one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy by Apolitical. In 2020, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) presented him with its Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award, the UN’s highest environmental honor.
Bullard received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University and is a proud U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
DR. DAVID N. PELLOW
Professor David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen and Department Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on environmental and social justice, race/class/gender and environmental conflict, human-animal conflicts, sustainability and social change movements that confront our socio-environmental crises and social inequality. He has volunteered for and served on the boards of directors of several community-based, national and international organizations dedicated to improving the living and working environments for people of color, immigrants, indigenous peoples and working class communities, including the Global Action Research Center, the Center for Urban Transformation, the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Global Response, Greenpeace USA and International Rivers.
RACE TO JUSTICE
Race to Justice: This is a moment of reckoning. As a nation, we are confronting evidence of inequality that reaches every corner of society. Arts & Lectures has a history of bringing complex issues to the forefront. Now, we are spearheading an in-depth look at systemic racism from every angle, including abolition, underlying conditions, reparations, criminal justice and more. Interdisciplinary and cross-departmental, this season-long series engages leading activists, creatives and thinkers to expand our understanding of racism and how race impacts society and to inspire an expansive approach to advancing racial equality.
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Arts & Lectures annually presents more than a hundred events, from critically-acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Dr. Robert Bullard is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Part of the Race to Justice series.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and FREE for UCSB students (registration required).
For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Presented in association with the Central Coast Climate Justice Network, Community Environmental Council, UCSB Bren School for Environmental Science & Management and UCSB Environmental Studies
Race to Justice Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Patty & John MacFarlane, Sara Miller McCune, Santa Barbara Foundation, Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin, Dick Wolf, and Zegar Family Foundation.
Race to Justice UC Santa Barbara Campus Partners: Department of Black Studies, Center for Black Studies Research, Division of Social Sciences, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences, Division of Student Affairs, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Graduate Division, Bren School for Environmental Science & Management, College of Creative Studies, College of Engineering, MultiCultural Center, Carsey-Wolf Center, The Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies, UCSB Library | UCSB Reads, Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.
Race to Justice Media Sponsors: Santa Barbara Independent, KCRW, Voice Magazine, Noozhawk.
Most Race to Justice events are hour-long programs and include an audience Q&A.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners theNatalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2020-2021 season.
