[Ying-announcements] Speaker for ENSC Seminar- NRDC Chief Science Advisor

[Sam Ying]

Awesome, thanks Claudia!
sam

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:29 AM Claudia Christine Avila <cmari009 at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Next week our speaker, Dr. Kristi Pullen Fedinick, the Chief Science
> Advisor of the Natural Resources Defense Council will be giving a talk to
> the ENSC department from 3-4PM next Friday, April 30th but will also be
> meeting with students before the talk from 2-3PM.
>
> Here’s the talk details and info on Dr. Fedinick:
>
> *Title:*
> *Unstable Ground: Social Vulnerability and Access to Clean Air, Safe
> Water, and Environments Free of Toxic Chemicals.*
>
> *Abstract:*
>
> *The United States Environmental Protection Agency was created in December
> 1970 in response to public concern about polluted air, contaminated water,
> and defiled natural areas. Bedrock environmental statutes like the Clean
> Water Act served as important catalysts for protecting and preserving
> natural resources across the United States. Though environmental laws like
> the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Toxic Substances
> Control Act should protect all people in the United States, the landscape
> upon which these laws fall is not a flat one. Without specific mechanisms
> to correct for structural inequities centered on race and class, the
> benefits conferred by any law will be unbalanced and unfair. This
> presentation will highlight the disproportionate burdens faced by
> communities with high social vulnerability in accessing safe drinking water
> and clean air. We will also discuss potential opportunities for utilizing
> social vulnerability assessments to strengthen chemical evaluations under
> the amended Toxic Substances Control Act.*
>
> *Short Bio:*
> *Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Ph.D., is a public health scientist and
> strategist with over 20 years of research experience. For the last decade,
> she has worked at the intersection of environmental health and public
> policy to advance data-driven, health-protective policy solutions. Dr.
> Pullen Fedinick is the Chief Science Advisor and Senior Scientist at the
> Natural Resources Defense Council. She also holds a part-time faculty
> position in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the
> Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington
> University.*
>
>
> *Dr. Pullen Fedinick possesses a unique multidisciplinary training that
> bridges the social sciences, public health, and biological sciences. She
> has authored multiple policy reports, peer-reviewed articles, and policy
> comments, and served on several influential committees of the National
> Academies of Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency.*
>
>
> *Dr. Pullen Fedinick received her B.S. in biochemistry and
> molecular biology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and her
> Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology with a concentration in
> structural biology and biophysics from the University of California,
> Berkeley. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society
> Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.*
>
> To attend her talk, you need to register for the zoom session. You will
> automatically get a calendar notification for all future ENSC seminars but
> you can totally just delete it after this talk if none of the future
> seminar are interesting (To register:
> https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpde-ppjMsGd2NesuEEBaSyvpu516s2ffS)
>
> Additionally, we are having a smaller session before the talk for her to
> connect with students from 2-3PM on Friday, April 30th. If you are free
> then, the info is already added in our shared calendar. I REALLY THINK YOU
> SHOULD ALL GO TO BOTH OR AT LEAST ONE OF THESE!
>
> --
> Claudia Christine E. Avila (she/her)
> Department of Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside
> PhD Candidate, The Dirty Lab
> <http://ucrsoils.weebly.com>Environmental Biogeochemistry
> xingonadirtscience.com
>
>
>
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