About Us
This website provides community-building space for sharing information, ideas, and events about environmental justice. We consider environmental justice broadly to include topics around power, privilege, environment, and space. We aim to include diverse perspectives and ideas from people interested in environmental justice – including folks from WWU and in our broader communities.
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this site are those of the authors, and do not represent the view of WWU or the State of Washington. When student work is shared on this site, the student author has given explicit permission for us to do so.
Website Manager
Kate Darby, Environmental Justice Minor Coordinator, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
I am a teacher-scholar focused on understanding and addressing environmental injustice, through research on smelter activism in El Paso del Norte, food provisioning in rural Pennsylvania, public transit access, and water scarcity in Northern Arizona. I teach the first class in the Huxley core, as well as courses that serve the new Environmental Justice minor, and I enjoy working with undergraduate and graduate students on independent study experiences around power, privilege, and the environment. Three WWU students and I recently completed an ethnographic study of WWU students’ experience with hunger and food insecurity. I am committed to developing and sharing pedagogies and strategies for centering social justice in environmental work and teaching. I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology (Environment, Science and Technology and Urban Ecology focus) at Arizona State University and I am currently an associate professor of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.
Outside of this academic work, I enjoy reading novels, exploring the trails of Bellingham, visiting dystopian industrial sites, doing art with my kids, and cooking yummy food.
Are you interested in having me supervise your senior thesis, senior project, or honors thesis? Would you like to ask me for a letter of recommendation? Please read this document before contacting me.