04/03/2019
The Environmental Justice Working Group is asking Stanford University to hire 5 new faculty focused on environmental justice across multiple departments.
Please support our efforts!
Sign on here:
https://forms.gle/iwDTWFUDamPr7nqE9
Website: ejstanford.weebly.com
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Dear Environmental Justice supporter:
We are respectfully requesting your support today to sign our petition, asking Stanford University to hire five new environmental justice focused faculty.
Recently, hundreds of thousands of young people all over the world took to the streets to demand action on climate change. Their calls centered equity and justice in the fight to raise climate change awareness, as the greatest crisis of our time. Stanford students vow to keep up the momentum and are joining this fight by demanding that Stanford advance the education and research that we need to build a more environmentally sustainable and socially justice world. This requires providing education and research that:
advances environmental justice and environmental human rights and at Stanford;
integrates environmental justice as a necessary dimension of social-environmental scholarship and policy solutions; and prioritizes the needs of the most vulnerable by centering their perspectives, and the problems and solutions they are asking for. Stanford needs Environmental Justice faculty to bring knowledge, methods, tools, and approaches that center human and environmental well-being as core values for achieving social-environmental sustainability and equity.
Please sign this petition calling for a cluster hire of five EJ-focused faculty at Stanford, to occur across multiple departments, and to include both junior and senior level faculty. There are currently no academic council faculty focused on environmental justice. In order to effectively move knowledge production forward, we must have faculty who have expertise on frameworks of distributive justice and procedural justice that are concerned with the unfair distribution of environmental benefits and harms, and meaningful community participation in decision-making. We must have faculty who have environmental justice expertise that centers community agency and self-representation, i.e. doing research with, as opposed to research for marginalized communities. We must have environmental justice faculty whose scholarship focuses on intersectionality--the idea that various forms of social stratification, e.g. class, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, disability, and gender, are interwoven, and do not exist separately from one other.
Please sign our petition: https://forms.gle/iwDTWFUDamPr7nqE9.
By doing so, you will help us to ensure that environmental justice becomes a priority for Stanford, to provide every student with the education they need to meet the greatest environmental and social challenges of our time, and to produce the best knowledge and science possible.
We will deliver this petition to university decision-makers and department chairs in mid-April. To get involved, please sign up to receive emails at ejworkgroup. See more information at https://ejstanford.weebly.com/
Thank you for your consideration,
The Environmental Working Group at Stanford
