Speakers

Dorceta Taylor is an associate professor of environmental sociology at the University of Michigan, where she teaches environmental history, politics and development, gender and environment, and sociological theory. Her research focuses on environmental justice ideology and activism, social movements, and diversity in the environmental field. She helped to develop the environmental justice program at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, and she serves as program director of the Minority Environmental Leadership Development Initiative. Her forthcoming books include Environment, Work and Recreation in American Cities and Outward Bound: Manliness, Wealth, Race, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement, as well as a book on minorities and the environment.