Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center @EPA | Interested in exploring the intersection of water, equity & human rights.
Houston, TX
Joined April 2020
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“Stopping Formosa Plastics has been a fight for our lives, and today David has toppled Goliath,” said Sharon Lavigne, who founded the group @risestjames
#environmentaljustice #HumanRights
.@DETWaterDep Detroit needs a permanent #wateraffordability platform, not just a patchwork of assistance programs, to ensure residents have #safe, #clean and #affordable #water.
#HumanRights
@HUDgov - use all of your power to enforce the #TitleVI finding re TXGLO's racist CDBG-MIT$ MOD. Protect #BIPOC communities from Flooding. #FundFloodJustice
@weststrecovery
bit.ly/3BHHBBg
It's folks&orgs like this that make me #proud to be from #Houston!
@weststrecovery speaking with such #power at @USWaterAlliance #OneWaterSummit2022 on their incredible, inspiring & taking no bull$hit #drainagejustice work in Northeast Houston.
165,000 people in West Texas could be without water for days amid heat wave after main breaks nbcnews.com/news/us-news/165… via @nbcnews
In love with @BayouCityWK's latest tool to help visualize #injustices occuring in @HoustonTX / @HarrisCounty with the prevalence of sanitary sewer overflows in low wealth & communities of color.
#infrastructure #justice
🔥@NASA featured our work as an example of #data being used to advance #EnvironmentalJustice!
Check it out!
Blurb👉🏾go.nasa.gov/35RfkKU
StoryMap👉🏾bit.ly/3gyfhpk
#floods
#houstontexas
#HarrisCounty
Credit: me,@wxpizza,Dr.Carolynne Hultquist
@columbiaclimate
Towards environmental justice: Our #NASAsedac +@climatesociety team developed a tool that uses a multidimensional approach to assessing flood vulnerability in Harris County TX go.nasa.gov/35RfkKU bit.ly/3gyfhpk @columbiaclimate
Not much of a NY resol. setter, but wanting 2 #read more, I set a goal of x1 📖/mo in '22. Well, I'm at 2.5 (taking credit 4 the 1 started in '21😂)! All incred. reads
The Color of Law Richard Rothstein
Troubled Water @SethMSiegel
What the Eyes Don't See @MonaHannaA
Any recs?
1/3 Had an amazing time working at @signalgroupdc, learning all things #water policy and #advocacy from
@maestevens & Ted Mondloch!
But, SUPER excited to start my next chapter as an ORISE Fellow at @EPAwater!
2/3 An incredible opportunity to get to work on #EnvironmentalJustice and #equity issues related to decentralized wastewater systems (i.e. septic systems), with my personal goal of helping all people in the US realize their basic #humanright of access to safe sanitation.
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wow @naylor_tony - the ode to toast i didn't know i needed. #thankyou for you
"Think of jam not as a topping, but as a seasoning for bread and butter. Like a croupier shuffling cards, an elaborate mosaic or two lovers’ interlinked fingers..."
🧈POETRY🍞
theguardian.com/food/2021/ma…
Loved this @60Minutes segment featuring a personal #hero of mine, whose work fighting for the basic human right to safe sanitation access in *THE US* changed my world & inspired my career in h2o- @CathFlowers.
#HumanRights
Many Americans are still living without sanitary sewage systems, with some impoverished residents breaking state laws and piping untreated waste directly from their homes onto the ground. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
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Just listened to @washingtonpost podcast on, "the Myth of Thanksgiving."
Really educational account of the origins of the first thanksgiving & the Wampanoag Tribe. Recommend a listen, linked below!
"Pause, remember & reflect"
tinyurl.com/WaPothxgiving
A very interesting, and very sus situation involving water, drought, @Google, their data centers, and nondisclosure.
Hmmm
A city in Oregon filed suit in an effort to keep Google’s water use a secret. The city argues it's a “trade secret” exempt from disclosure under Oregon law. oregonlive.com/silicon-fores…
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"we didn't change life, they [petrochemical plants] changed our lives for us"
🚨#StopFormosaPlastics #CancerAlley
@risestjames @LAChemAssoc @labucketbrigade @StephenCurry30
youtu.be/aeMxN_f4c8w
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Couldn't say it better myself: @Sen_JoeManchin , "We can't wait‼️‼️‼️"
🚨BREAKING: Tonight, @Sen_JoeManchin emerged from his yacht for some real talk with the West Virginians who’ve been kayaking to his DC yacht every day this week!
And he invited them to come in for a meeting tomorrow/Monday latest!
#DontSinkWV
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So proud of my friend @JenyfromtheBock and her team's research on extreme heat, #racism, and COVID! Awesome work!!!! #EnvironmentalJustice
8 Ways NYC Can Help Vulnerable Communities Survive Summer Heat news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
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Super honored to have collaborated with the @NAACP on this report! #racialjustice #ClimateJustice #Flood
Are Black communities inadequately protected from current flooding, and will they be protected as flooding exacerbates due to climate change?
#QTNA! Click the link to learn more.
naacp.org/resources/turning-…
