On Thursday, November 18th, Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform Rebecca Bratspies will receive the Environment, Energy, and Resources Dedication to Diversity and Justice Award at the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) Awards Ceremony.
This award recognizes the achievements of nine individuals, programs, and organizations that have made significant accomplishments in the environment, energy, and natural resources legal areas.
Professor Bratspies is honored to have her mentor, Professor Carmen Gonzalez, Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, present her the award on behalf of the ABA.
“This award is really recognizing the work of so many people, especially all the students who have worked with me over the years advocating to make New York City a fairer, greener, more equitable city. I view this award as an endorsement for legal pedagogies that extend beyond the law school and work for change in the wider community.”
Professor Bratspies has been teaching property, climate change, environmental justice, administrative law, and environmental law since 2004 at CUNY Law. She founded the Center for Urban Environmental Reform (CUER) in 2011, to support and empower communities participating in environmental decision-making, and to build a new generation of environmental leaders attuned to the urban environment.
Her international expertise on environmental justice, the regulation of new agricultural technologies, and the human right to a healthy environment bolster global movements towards equitable and intersectional environmental policy.
With her artist collaborator Charlie LaGreca, Professor Bratspies created the Environmental Justice Chronicles—a series of environmental justice-themed comic books. The first two books, Mayah’s Lot and Bina’s Plant, have been used in schools across the country to build the next generation of environmental leaders. Book 3 of the Environmental Justice Chronicles will be released in early 2022.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Rebecca Bratspies for this immense accomplishment, and join her for the awards ceremony on November 18th at 4:30pm EST.
You can engage with Professor Bratspies’ scholarship here and follow along with her advocacy on Twitter.
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