This event features three of the contributors to the recent volume published by the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality, Dr Ben Mylius, Dr Na’Taki Osborne Jelks and Dr Tiffani Betts Razavi. The discussion will explore the questions raised in the volume around approaching the challenge of climate justice from the perspective of environmental justice. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Hoda Mahmoudi and Dr. Kate Seaman, the editors of the volume.
Dr. Ben Mylius, Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics in Society, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University
Ben Mylius completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Political Theory at Columbia and his LLM at Yale Law School after his undergraduate studies in Australia. His work revolves around climate, storytelling, and imagination. At the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Ben is working on a book-length project exploring different tools communities can use to imagine their own just, resilient, and dynamic climate futures. The project draws on his dissertation research (“On Human Separatism”) and his practical experience as founder of the Columbia Climate Imaginations Network. Ben is an Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellow in partnership with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Dr. Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Health Sciences, Spelman College/Co-Founder, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor of environmental and health sciences at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and Co-Founder of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, a community-based, environmental justice organization. Jelks investigates urban environmental health disparities; the impact of climate change on marginalized communities; the role that place, race, and social factors play in influencing health; and urban greening and resilience practices and their impact on health. She also develops, implements, and evaluates community-based initiatives that set conditions to enable low-income and communities of color to empower themselves to reduce exposure to environmental health hazards. Jelks’ scholarship centers participatory approaches that engage environmentally overburdened communities in monitoring local environmental conditions, generating actionable data for community change, and developing effective community-based interventions that revitalize toxic, degraded spaces into healthy places. She is currently leading UrbanHeatATL, a research initiative in which local students and community members are mapping urban heat islands in Atlanta with community science. Her research has been supported by public and private entities such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Rockefeller, Robert Wood Johnson, JPB, and National Science Foundations
Dr Tiffani Betts Razavi, Visiting Research Professor, The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Tiffani Betts Razavi is a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Maryland (USA) Bahá’í Chair for World Peace. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford (UK) and has lectured in psychology, research methods, and organizational behavior at the University of Southampton (UK). She has also coordinated action research for curriculum development for a global Bahá’í community-based spiritual and moral education program. Her research and writing explore human values in education and the workplace, integrative approaches to peace, social change, gender equality and education, and Bahá’í perspectives on these themes. She has recently published in the Journal of Peace Education, Springer Nature Social Sciences, and Peace & Change, as well as the edited volumes Transglobal Humanities: Meeting the Moment, Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality, and the subject of today’s discussion, Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace. it stand out
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