Monica M. White, Ph.D., Distinguished Chair of Integrated Environmental Studies, associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and past president of the board of directors for the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network, offers a keynote address as part of the Growing Justice, Creating Community college-community symposium organized by the Oberlin College Food Studies Program.
White is the first Black woman to earn tenure in both the College of Agricultural Life Sciences (established 1889) and the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies (established 1970), to which she is jointly appointed. As the founding director of the Office of Environmental Justice and Engagement (OEJ) at UW-Madison, White's research investigates Black grassroots organizations that are engaged in the development of sustainable, community-based food systems as a strategy to respond to issues of hunger and food inaccessibility. She works toward bridging the gap between the university and the broader community by connecting faculty and students to community-based organizations that are working in areas of environmental/food/land justice toward their mutual benefit. She is also an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2022-2024 and received the 2024 Distinguished Career Award in the Service of Sociology from the American Sociological Association.
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