Engineering for Professionals Distinguished Speaker Series: Kelly Tzoumis

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Kelly Tzoumis, a professor of public policy studies at DePaul University, will give a talk titled "Environmental Justice: The Past, the Present and the Future" as part of the Engineering for Professionals Distinguished Speaker Series.

Climate change, energy justice, and sustainability are current global movements that impact our society at all levels. These global movements are inextricably linked to the environmental justice movement. This presentation will focus on environmental justice from its origins to current day policy.

Tzoumis will explain the foundations and principles of the environmental justice movement, and how it differed from the modern environmental movement in the U.S. of the 1960s–1970s. She will then explore some of the contemporary tools used in the field for investigating environmental justice implementation. Finally, she will link the environmental justice movement to current global movements on climate change, energy justice, and sustainability. She will present the framing, visuals, and multimedia used by environmental justice activists.