Environmental Justice Leaders Meet


NIEHS News

Environmental Justice
Leaders Meet
At a recent meeting hosted by NIEHS
Director Kenneth Olden, environmental
justice leaders reviewed the Department of
Health and Human Services' Environ-
mental Justice Strategy (see Special Report
on next page). At the meeting in Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina, leaders
emphasized the need for a coordinated
approach to ethnic and regional networks
focused on health and justice in low-
income and minority populations. Senior
staff from the NIEHS and the National
Toxicology Program identified opportuni-
ties for improved partnerships with the
networks through the hazardous waste and
minority worker training program, envi-
ronmental justice partnership grants, and
other core professional training and
research activities. Olden stressed the
importance of expanding collaborative
efforts with the networks over the next
year, as the NIEHS and DHHS imple-
ment the environmental justice strategy.

Leaders who attended the meeting
include: Richard Moore, director of the

Justice team. (left to right) Sharon Beard, Allen Dearry, Mary Crowe, Charles Lee, Kenneth Olden, Richard
Moore, Connie Tucker, Robert Bullard, Yin Ling Leung, and Jerry Poje.

Southwest Network for Economic and
Environmental Justice and chair of the
National Environmental Justice Advisory
Committee, Mary Crowe of the Indi-
genous Environmental Network, Charles
Lee of the United Church of Christ's
Commission on Racial Justice, Connie

Tucker of the Southern Organizing
Committee, Robert Bullard, director of
Clark Atlanta University's Environmental
Justice Resource Center, and Yin Ling
Leung of the Asian Pacific Environmental
Network.

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