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Catawba College to host community conversation on climate justice

Catawba College’s Center for the Environment is hosting a community conversation next week.

The event is the result of a partnership between the college, the local NAACP chapter, and the Reimagining America Project, a nonprofit looking to enact systemic changes to end racism. 

The conversation will center around climate change, but more specifically, climate justice.

Mercedes Quesada-Embid is an associate professor of environmental policy and advocacy and will be moderating the discussion. 

“Climate justice helps us to take a look very clearly and squarely at what are the structural systems that we have in place that have facilitated the progression to where we are today," she said. 

She says panelists will engage with the audience to discuss how environmental issues disproportionately affect communities of color, and people who are economically disenfranchised — but they will also focus on solutions.

The conversation will be held on Feb. 1 in Catawba’s Center for the Environment, Room 302 at 6:30 p.m. 

Amy Diaz covers education for WFDD in partnership with Report For America. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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