Climate and Environmental Justice Program

The Climate and Environmental Justice program is the CSJ’s inaugural student-engaged climate and environmental justice programming. Within this program, we believe that all disciplines and fields of study intersect fundamentally with the fight for a sustainable future. CEJ welcomes people with varied interests to work in a transdisciplinary fashion, and collectively build skills such as engaging in community, interweaving knowledges, and critically applying colonialism, race, class, and other lenses to understand the environmental and climate crisis we face today. 

Mission

CEJ works to interrupt colonial narratives of sustainability by promoting anti-colonial/de-colonial approaches to climate justice through centering community knowledge, student engagement, ecological belonging, critical reflection, and the redistribution of resources.

Program Overview

The Climate and Environmental Justice (CEJ) Student Staff, Coordinator, Justice Graduate Intern, and Research Fellow will co-create within the CSJ’s inaugural CEJ cohort. As a part of this cohort, the group will engage in the following activities:

1. Convene for weekly training and development sessions to grasp various frameworks of climate and environmental justice, and deepen understandings of colonialism, race, land, and other intersections with CEJ;
2. Manage collaborative projects with other CSJ programs and internal or external community partners, though outreach and communication with various stakeholders; and
3. Work with local grassroots community partners to learn some frameworks of reciprocal community engagement firsthand.

Program Model

This program is rooted in the 6 pillars of climate justice, as articulated by the University of California Center for Climate Justice. Learning and action will take place along the principles of these pillars. Browse through the six pillars for more information on each of them.

Get Involved

Student team positions are open for Spring 2025. The Student team role calls for creativity, innovation, interweaving and transdisciplinary approaches, community engagement, and a passion for climate and environmental justice. A full position description can be found here, and the interest form can be found here. This application will be open until Friday, December 6, 2024.

Contact

Reach out to Akanksha Sinha (they/them), ECo Fellow Research Associate at the CSJ and Earth Commons, at as4474@georgetown.edu.