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Julian Agyemanis a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University. He is the originator of the concept of “just sustainabilities,” the intentional integration of social justice and sustainability. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (2003) and Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (2015). He is editor-in-chief of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability; series editor of Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice; and co-editor of the Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series. In 2018, he was awarded the Athena City Accolade by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, for his “outstanding contribution to the field of social justice and ecological sustainability, environmental policy and planning.”J. M. Baconis a visiting assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Grinnell College. Bacon’s research explores the relationship between culture, identity, and eco-social practice with special attention to activism, emotions, and decolonization. Current projects include an ongoing consideration of settler solidarity with Indigenous-led environmental activism, an analysis of the experiences of LBGTQ+ environmental activists, and place attachment among Celtic cultural practitioners.Carolina L. Balazsis a research scientist for the California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), where she leads the Human Right to Water project. Balazs is also the co-founder and co-lead of the Water Equity Science Shop at the University of California, Berkeley, a cross-institutional collaboration promoting community-based water equity research. Her studies on social disparities in drinking water contamination in California were among the first such studies in the state. Prior to joining OEHHA, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis, and worked as a research scientist with the Community Water Center. She is the recipient of the Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellowship, the UC Chancellor’s Award for Diversity and Community, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. She holds doctoral and master's degrees from UC Berkeley in energy and resources, and a bachelor's degree in environmental science from Brown University.Phil Brownis a University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Science at Northeastern University, where he directs the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute and its PFAS Project lab, which has grants from the National Science Foundation to study social policy and activism concerning PFAS, and from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study children’s immune responses to PFAS and community response to contamination. He directs an NIEHS T-32 training program, Transdisciplinary Training at the Intersection of Environmental Health and Social Science, and heads the Community Outreach and Translation Core of Northeastern’s Children’s Environmental Health Center (Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico/CRECE) and both the Research Translation Core and Community Engagement Core of Northeastern’s Superfund Research Program (Puerto Rico Testsite to Explore Contamination Threats, PROTECT). His books include No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action; Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement; and Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements.Robert D. Bullardis Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University in Houston. He is often called “the father of environmental justice.” Bullard is the author of 18 books that address environmental racism, urban land use, housing, transportation, sustainability, smart growth, climate justice, and community resilience. His latest books include Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina (2009), Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States (2011), and The Wrong Complexion for Protection (2012). In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the “13 Environmental Leaders of the Century.” In 2013, Sierra Club honored him with its John Muir Award; and in 2014, the organization named its new Environmental Justice Award after him. In 2018, the Global Climate Change Summit named Bullard one of 22 Climate Trailblazers. And in 2019, Apolitical named him one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy.Stella M. Čapekis Elbert L. Fausett Emerita Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hendrix College. She has taught Environmental Sociology, Social Change/Social Movements, The Urban Community, Images of the City, Medical Sociology, Food/Culture/Nature, Sociology of Travel and Tourism, Sociological Theory, and Exploring Nature Writing, as well as sustainability-focused travel seminars in Costa Rica and in the U.S. Southwest. She co-authored Community Versus Commodity: Tenants and the American City and Come Lovely and Soothing Death: The Right to Die Movement in the United States. Her articles focus on environmental justice, tenants’ rights, urban design, environmental health, and social constructions of nature and the self. She also publishes environmentally themed creative nonfiction and enjoys interdisciplinary collaborations focused on social justice.Alissa Cordneris associate professor and Paul Garrett Fellow at Whitman College, where she teaches sociology and environmental studies courses. Her research focuses on environmental sociology, the sociology of risk and disasters, environmental health and justice, and public engagement in science and policy making. She is the author of Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health (2016), which won the 2018 Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environmental Sociology, and the co-author of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (2014). She has conducted extensive research on the regulation, research, and activism related to industrial chemicals. She also studies the sociological aspects of wildfire risk management in the Northwest with a focus on firefighter safety, public safety, and resource management.Cristina Faiver-Sernais a Chicana scholar and a doctoral degree candidate in geography at the University of Oregon. She has a master's degree in public health, and worked for several years as the director of health education and outreach at a nonprofit community health center in Southern California. Her current research project builds on her time spent working alongside promotoras de salud against the everyday oppressions of environmental racism, and critically examines the multiscalar geographical and historical infrastructure that requires their ongoing community care work. Faiver-Serna is an interdisciplinary critical race scholar, whose expertise and research interests in critical environmental racism and injustice, Latina feminist theory and praxis, Latinx geographies, and critical public health studies have developed both within, and outside of, academia.Jill Lindsey Harrisonis associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on environmental justice, environmental politics, workplace inequalities, and immigration politics. In her research, she identifies the narratives, other interactive dynamics, and broader political economic structures through which people come to define highly inequitable circumstances as reasonable and unproblematic. She also identifies the practices through which other groups push the state to remedy those inequalities. She has done so through research on political conflict over agricultural pesticide poisonings in California, immigration policing in rural Wisconsin, and government agencies’ environmental justice efforts. Her first book, Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (2011), won book awards from the Rural Sociological Society and the Association of Humanist Sociology. Her second book, From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies, was published in 2019.Elizabeth Hooveris associate professor of American studies and faculty chair of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative steering committee at Brown University. Her first book, The River Is In Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community (2017), is an exploration of Akwesasne Mohawks’ response to Superfund contamination and environmental health research. She is currently working on her second book, From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement, exploring Native American community–based farming, food and seed sovereignty, Native chefs in the food movement, and the fight against the fossil fuel industry to protect heritage foods. Hoover’s other publications include co-editing Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States with Devon Mihesuah (2019) and several articles. Outside of academia, Hoover serves on the executive committee of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance and the board of North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems.George Lipsitzis professor of black studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-author with Barbara Tomlinson of Insubordinate Spaces: Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice. His single-authored books include The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, How Racism Takes Place, A Life in the Struggle, Time Passages, and A Rainbow at Midnight. Lipsitz serves as chair of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum. He was awarded the American Studies Association’s Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship in 2013 and its Bode-Pearson Prize for Career Distinction in 2016.Deniss Josefina Martinezis a doctoral student in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is also a health policy research scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her work seeks to understand how California Native Nations navigate power differentials in varying natural resource stewardship collaborations with western institutions. She is passionate about increasing Indigenous representation in environmental stewardship in order to support environmental justice, health equity, sovereignty, and cultural vitality.Beth Rose Middleton Manningis an associate professor and chair in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Middleton’s research centers on Native environmental policy and Native activism for site protection using conservation tools. Her books Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011) and Upstream (2018) focus on Native applications of conservation easements and on the history of Indian allotment lands at the headwaters of the California State Water Project, respectively. Middleton is currently developing projects focused on tribal participation in the carbon market, on California Indigenous legal history, and on intersecting Afro- and Indigenous Caribbean histories. She is passionate about increasing under-represented perspectives, especially Indigenous perspectives, in academia and in environmental policy and planning.Paul Mohaiis a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research. He is a founder of the Environmental Justice Program at the University of Michigan and a major contributor to the growing body of quantitative research examining disproportionate environmental burdens and their impacts on low-income and people-of-color communities. He has served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and has provided testimony on environmental justice to the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. He is author of numerous articles, books, and reports focused on race and the environment.Rachel Morello-Froschis a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. As an environmental health scientist and epidemiologist, Morello-Frosch conducts research that examines race and class determinants of environmental health disparities among diverse communities in the United States with a focus on climate change and environmental chemicals. She also writes about the influence of community-based participatory research projects on environmental health science, regulation, and policymaking. She is the co-author of numerous books and articles. Her awards include the Chancellor’s Award for Research in Public Service, University of California, Berkeley (2012), and the Damu Smith Environmental Health Achievement Award, Environment Section, American Public Health Association (2010).Kari Marie Norgaardis professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of Oregon. Over the past 15 years, Norgaard has published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, Indigenous environmental justice, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, and sociology of emotions. She is the author of Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action (2019) and Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life (2011) and a recipient of the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award, a Sociology of Emotions Recent Contribution Award, and the Pacific Sociological Association’s Distinguished Practice Award. Her work on climate denial and Indigenous environmental justice have been covered by The Washington Post, National Geographic, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, High Country News, and Yes Magazine, among others.David N. Pellowis the Dehlsen Chair and professor of environmental studies and director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His teaching and research focus on ecological justice issues in the United States and globally. His books include What Is Critical Environmental Justice?; Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement; The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice; The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); and Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. He has served on the boards of directors for Global Response, The Global Action Research Center, the Center for Urban Transformation, the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Greenpeace USA, and International Rivers.Kaitlin Reed(Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) is an assistant professor of Native American studies at Humboldt State University. Her research is focused on tribal land and water rights, extractive capitalism, and settler colonial political economies. She is currently working on a book titled From Gold Rush to Green Rush: Cannabis and California Indians. This book connects the historical and ecological dots between the Gold Rush and the Green Rush, focusing on capitalistic resource extraction and violence against Indigenous lands and bodies. In 2018, she was awarded the Charles Eastman Fellowship of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. Reed is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe in Northwestern California.Sarah M. Riosis an assistant professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Rios received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2018. Rios's ongoing research examines how farmworkers and former prisoners elucidated new ways of knowing about an environmental disease known as Valley Fever, its connection to cumulative vulnerabilities, and new ways of healing from its devastating effects. Rios is especially interested in how poverty, pollution, and prisons lead to health problems, and how community-based knowledge can address and redress cumulative health impacts. Over the next few years, her studies will develop a broad framework that sheds light on community-based knowledge and variations of community-based research methods to further explore the links among race, place, and health.Oday Salimis a clinical assistant professor of law and director of the Environmental Law & Sustainability Clinic, as well as an attorney at the National Wildlife Federation in its Great Lakes Regional Center. Prior to joining the clinical program, Salim practiced environmental law in Pennsylvania and Michigan, focusing on stormwater management, water quality permitting, water rights, environmental justice, land use and zoning, utility regulation, mineral rights, and renewable energy. He has litigated in administrative and civil courts at the local, state, and federal levels, and has done transactional work for individuals and nonprofits. In 2018, he was named one of Grist magazine’s 50 Fixers for his work on environmental and public health protection in minority communities.João Costa Vargasis a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. His work is based on collaborative projects engaging antiblackness in the United States and in Brazil. He has published, among other books, Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles (2006), Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities (2008), and The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering (2018).Ingrid Waldronis an associate professor in the Faculty of Health and the team co-lead of the Health of People of African Descent Research Cluster at the Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie University. Waldron’s scholarship is driven by a long-standing interest in looking at the many ways in which spaces and places are organized by structures of colonialism and gendered racial capitalism. She is the director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project, which is investigating the socioeconomic and health effects of environmental racism in Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities. Her first book, There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, received the 2019 Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing. The 2019 documentary There’s Something in the Water is based on Waldron’s book and was co-produced by Waldron, Ellen Page, Ian Daniel, and Julia Sanderson.Kyle Powys Whyteis the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University, professor of philosophy and community sustainability, a faculty member of the Environmental Philosophy & Ethics graduate concentration and the Geocognition Research Lab, and a faculty affiliate of the American Indian & Indigenous Studies and Environmental Science & Policy programs. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Whyte’s work focuses on climate and environmental justice and Indigenous environmental studies, most recently studying issues related to Indigenous food sovereignty and Indigenous critiques of concepts of the anthropocene. His writing appears in journals such as Climatic Change, Sustainability Science, and Human Ecology. He is the recipient of several awards including the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 2009, and the Bunyan Bryant Award for Academic Excellence from Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice in 2015.Stephen Zavestoskiis a professor of environmental studies at the University of San Francisco. He has co-edited books such as Social Movements in Health (2005), Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements (2012), and Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and Problems (2014). He is also co-editor of the Routledge book series Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City. His research areas include environmental sociology, social movements, sociology of health and illness, and urban sustainability. Zavestoski’s previous research has also covered topics such as ecological identity, consumerism, and the effects of the Internet on public participation in environmental regulatory rulemaking processes.