Dates/Times: Friday, April 4th, 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Saturday, April 5th, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: In-Person
Instructors: Karenna Gore & Michael Lewis
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 21st

This course will examine environmental justice through the lens of air, water, food, shelter and community/culture. It will include an overview of the Environmental Justice movement in the United States and case studies of contemporary concerns in New York City. We will study bioregional climate-related issues such as current and projected increases in heat, storm surge, and sea level rise. We will also look into the sources and effects of pollution and seek to understand aspects of access to healthy food, water and air. We plan to include an optional walking tour and visit with communities who are on the frontlines of these issues.

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Karenna Gore

Karenna Gore, MA ’11 Karenna Gore is the founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics and visiting professor of Practice of Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Karenna formed CEE in 2015 to address the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis. Working at the intersection of faith, ethics, and ecology, she guides the Center’s public programs, educational initiatives, and movement-building. She also is an ex officio faculty member of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Karenna is the author of “Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America” (2006). , and has written for numerous publications, including Slate, El Pais (Spain) and the New York Times. She serves on the boards of the Association to Benefit Children and Riverkeeper, an organization that protects and restores the Hudson River and safeguards drinking water. She is also an expert in the United Nations’ Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network, an online platform of practitioners, academics, and researchers. A graduate of Harvard College, Karenna earned her law degree from Columbia Law School and a master’s in social ethics from Union Theological Seminary.

Michael Lewis

Michael Anthony Lewis is a social worker and sociologist on the faculties of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches in the areas of public policy and quantitative methods. These are also his areas of research with an emphasis on policies related to universal basic income. Lewis is co-editor of The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, co-author of Economics for Social Workers: The Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services, and author of Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues. He is also a former community organizer who worked in the East New York section of Brooklyn, NY.