Curious about environmental justice? Join Chanell Fletcher, Deputy Executive Officer of Environmental Justice at the California Air Resources Board (CARB), as she shares about the history of environmental justice, how environmental justice is shaping California’s work to improve air quality and address climate change, and ways in which you and your classrooms can engage in environmental justice.
Speaker Bio: Chanell Fletcher was appointed to the position of Deputy Executive Officer of Environmental Justice in January 2021. Ms. Fletcher oversees CARB’s Environmental Justice and Community Air Protection Program and is responsible for developing CARB-wide environmental justice policies. She plays a key role in CARB’s programs designed to address disproportionate impacts from air pollution and climate change and associated chronic health conditions affecting Black, Latinx and other communities of color across the state. She is focused on moving away from a top-down equity model to one that centers on building relationships and trust with partners in the environmental and racial justice movement at the community level.
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