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

Fri Apr 30 09:04:04 PDT 2021

Hey everyone, 

Just sending a reminder about todays seminar speaker: 

2:00-Roundtable Discussion with Students (the link to Zoom is in our group calendar)
3:00- Seminar talk for ENSC department

And if you want a sneak peak showing how cool Dr. Pullen Fedinick is: WATCH THIS <https://youtu.be/Wfthu7PLFcE>

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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 <http://xingonadirtscience.com/>

> On 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.
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> 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 <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 <http://xingonadirtscience.com/>
> 
> 
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