It’s not just how many people live there, it’s who lives there: Supporting Racio-Spatial Sense-making using Agentic Environmental Justice Tools
The IPCE Civic Engagement Lunch Talk Series
February 12, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement is happy to announce the first Civic Engagement Lunch Talk session of the new year! Join us on February 12th where Civic Engagement Research Awardee Phillip A. Boda, Ph.D, from the College of Education, will present ‘It’s not just how many people live there, it’s who lives there’: Supporting Racio-Spatial Sense-making using Agentic Environmental Justice Tools”.
There are an overwhelming number of Black and Brown, poor, communities disproportionately over-burdened by U.S. environmental hazards and, thus, identification is needed for the “most vulnerable” populations when creating Environmental Justice policies. Dr. Phillip A. Boda and his team focused their research on Toxics Release Inventories (TRI’S), population density, and median income, leveraging simulation visualizations in their Environmental Justice Tool (EJT).
The simulation design features illustrate sense-making as the primary driver of development across the three design iterations that Dr. Boda’s team conducted. Dr. Boda argues that to expand knowledge around Environmental Justice maps and envision ‘community-engagement’ beyond what we want them to know, we need to honor the voices from the communities justly.
Registration is required, follow this link to RSVP: bit.ly/BodaCELunchTalk
Date posted
Jan 6, 2025
Date updated
Jan 7, 2025