The Duke Human Rights Center@FHI is examining what it means to study human rights at the university level in a new project titled RightsConnect. RightsConnect hosts a series of lectures and workshops on human rights teaching and practice, with noted outside faculty and practitioners who face real world challenges to rights campaigns.
This talk focuses on environmental health and justice, centering on air pollution's increased effects upon races and classes already vulnerable to other health issues due to disparities. Rachel Morello-Frosch is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley working in the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management. Her work focuses on these community-based health issues and the policy-making around these issues.