Monica is assistant professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. Her work has appeared in Environmental Practice and Race/Ethnicity: Multicultural Global Contexts. She is currently working on her first book, “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, 1880-2010.”
The Biggest Thing We Forget When Talking About Food Justice
The food justice movement is one of the most promising political developments of the last generation. It has broadened and deepened environmentalism by knitting together concerns about economic inequality, labor rights, environmental health, and sustainable agriculture.
May 3, 2018