Speaker to discuss environmental justice in Latino communities - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Devon Pena, a scholar-activist who has studied social and environmental issues in Mexican-American communities of the West, will give a free public lecture Monday, Nov. 12, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He will address the topic “More Stories from the Front Lines of the Struggle Against Environmental Equity” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 180 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St.

A professor of American ethnic studies, anthropology, environmental studies and women’s studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, Pe�a for decades has combined collaborative, action-oriented research with social campaigns in the environmental justice movement, whose conventional rationales he challenges.”*

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