Our Mentors
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Associate Scientist at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Megan Latshaw is Director of the Master’s Degree Programs in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also serves as co-chair of University’s Sustainability Plan Steering Committee, and the Environmental Challenges Focus Area of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. As faculty at Hopkins, her efforts focus on designing healthy communities, connecting environmental health research with the real world, and improving environmental health surveillance (all through a justice and equity lens).
Their Work with EJC
Dr. Latshaw works with EJC by connecting us with other organizations, working directly with our public health sectors to implement the most efficient, scientific based policies, and high school curriculum development.
Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the UVA School of Architecture and Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the UVA Equity Center
Barbara Brown Wilson is an associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the UVA School of Architecture, and co-founder and faculty director at the UVA Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship (aka The Equity Center). Her research and teaching focus on the history, theory, ethics, and practice of planning for climate justice, and on the role of urban social movements in the built world. Dr. Wilson writes for both academic and mainstream audiences, and is the author of Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design (Island Press: 2018), and co-author of Questioning Architectural Judgement: The Problem of Codes in the United States (Routledge: 2013). Her research is often change-oriented, meaning she collaborates with community partners to identify opportunities to move our communities, and the field of urban planning, toward social and environmental justice.
Their Work with EJC
Dr. Wilson works with EJC by connecting us with other organizations, working directly with our infrastructure & energy sector, and providing resources to EJC from the Equity Center at UVA.
Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the UVA School of Architecture and Chair of the Urban & Environmental Planning Department at UVA
Ellen M. Bassett is an Associate Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning and the Chair of the department. Her areas of research interest and expertise are land use planning and law, climate change planning, health and the built environment, and international development. She is particularly interested in community decision-making around land and natural resources, including understanding how different societies and cultures create institutions (like property rights systems or policies) for their management.
Their Work with EJC
Dr. Bassett works with EJC by connecting us with other organizations and professors and working directly with our infrastructure & climate action sector.