Come and go according to your schedule to participate in this six-hour experimental symposium from choreographer Michael Kliën. Nicholas Institute expert Kay Jowers will be among 23 guest speakers drawing from disparate fields of knowledge and free associations to create a matrix of collective thought. Commissioned by Duke Arts at Duke University and co-sponsored by the American Dance Festival, the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and the Duke Dance Program.

Mark your calendars for this upcoming Think Global hybrid event on Nov. 28 at noon! Panelists will discuss research that shows marginalized communities bear the brunt of environmental health impacts, necessitating equitable solutions. Kay Jowers, director of Just Environments at the Nicholas Institute, will be among the speakers on the panel. Attendance in person is encouraged. Lunch will be available. 

*** This event is now full, but you can sign up for the waitlist. In addition, you can register to network with symposium attendees at an Energy Mix on Oct. 26 at 4:30 p.m. ET. ***

This single-track, in-person event will explore leading approaches to how data science tools, including artificial intelligence, can help us make energy systems more accessible, affordable, reliable, and environmentally sustainable.

The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum's 2022 Symposium is in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Act remains integral to preserving water quality for human health and recreation, and for the health and productivity of aquatic ecosystems intimately tied to our communities. Three multi-disciplinary panels of leaders from private, public, and non-profit sectors will discuss the value of clean water, how far the CWA's protections extend, and how the 50-year-old statute addresses emerging issues.

This event brings together Social Justice and Civil Rights scholars and advocates to discuss the intersection of voting, civil disobedience, and environmental justice. As we come up on midterm elections in the U.S., this program highlights two things: the history and interconnectedness of voting rights and environmental justice in this country, and the ways in which movements have used other methods, such as protest, when the electoral processes have failed to promote equity and public wellbeing.

Kay Jowers, senior policy associate in the Nicholas Institute's State Policy Program, will explore avenues for working with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and communities to support and resource progress toward environmental justice.

This presentation will offer perspectives on how institutional partners can use asset- and systems-based approaches to engaging with community and discuss the range of engagement strategies Communities in Partnership (CIP) and its university partners use to create just community-based research partnerships.

Senior Policy Associate Kay Jowers will join an expert panel for "Social Justice, Asymmetries of Power and the Climate Crisis," as part of the free webinar series Global Coalition for Community Climate Action, a leadership development initiative presented by American University of Beirut, Duke University, EARTH University and The University of Texas at Austin.

Kay Jowers, Senior Policy Associate, will co-facilitate "Community-Rooted Practices for Creating Equity" as part of ReCONNECT for the Future.

This discussion will investigate the interconnectedness of one’s home and their health. Housing can be linked to a wide variety of systemic inequalities, including health outcomes. These outcomes and inequalities are exacerbated during COVID-19, when people are spending more time in their homes than ever before.

Please gather your lunch and join us via Zoom on Thursday, Oct. 22nd at 12:00pm EST to hear Dr. Anna Wade and Dr. Dan Richter, Jr. talk about “Mapping Legacy Soil Lead in Durham, NC”. Through a Bass Connections research-education project, they have worked to produce the first city soil-lead map in the state. The team sampled urban soils in public spaces, parks, streetside right of ways, and in and around private homes across the city.  They have also mapped Duke University’s East campus using a portable X-ray fluorescence analyzer.

Tune in this Tuesday for the second webinar in the Duke Undergraduate Environmental Union's "Environmental Justice in North Carolina" series to hear from Dr. Kay Jowers, co-Director of the Environmental Justice Lab at Duke. Dr. Jowers also serves as a senior policy associate at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Her work focuses on analyzing state regulatory and policy approaches to addressing environmental issues and engages with environmental equity, ethics, and justice in particular.

Kay Jowers, senior policy associate in the Nicholas Institute's State Policy Program, and Chris Timmins, professor in the Department of Economics, will explore avenues for working with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and communities to support and resource progress toward environmental justice.

The electricity sector is changing rapidly, causing economic and social impacts in rural areas. On November 9, Kay Jowers, senior policy associate at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak at the conference, Energy Transitions and Rural Communities, in Chapel Hill. It will explore the challenges of new energy infrastructure and the effects in communities dependent on coal-related jobs.

Kay Jowers, senior policy associate at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will present "The Role of Movements and Legal Opportunities in Shaping Environmental Justice Policy" at the Annual Meeting on Law and Society in Toronto, Canada, Friday, June 8. 

The Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, in coordination with faculty at the Duke Department of Economics and the Nicholas School of the Environment, will host an invite-only workshop on new directions in the analysis of environmental justice at Duke University August 23 and 24.

How do lawyers and scientists explain or debunk stories linking cancer and other disease to the environment? Does science support the claims?

Kay Jowers, senior policy associate at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak on the "Diversity" panel at the 9th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Nov. 8. Her presentation will center on "Achieving Environmental Justice? The Impact of State Policy on Neighborhood Levels of Environmental Inequality."

For more information on the conference, visit http://www.law.berkeley.edu/17100.htm.