Giovanna DiChiro: Embodied Ecologies

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro is the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College. She has published widely on the intersections of race, class, gender, and environmental justice with a focus on activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower-income communities. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s and gender studies, and incorporates a community-based action research emphasis. Di Chiro is the author of the book Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and Environmental Justice.