2025 HBCU Environmental & Climate Justice Corps

2025 HBCU Environmental & Climate Justice Corps

Jul 7, 2025

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HBCU Environmental & Climate Justice Corps

Summer 2025 Report

HBCU Interns Advancing CBO Advocacy through Research and Training

In the summer of 2022, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice launched the HBCU Environmental Justice and Climate Corps. The 2025 HBCU interns are helping to build the capacity of DSCEJ environmental justice partner communities along the Gulf Coast Region spanning Pensacola, FL, Mobile, AL, Columbus, MS, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA.

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HBCU 10th Anniversary Climate Change Conference Recap

HBCU 10th Anniversary Climate Change Conference Recap

May 4, 2025

10th Anniversary HBCU Climate Change Conference Recap

This year’s conference theme was, “The Unjust Costs of Climate Change.” Nearly five hundred students, faculty, faith leaders, researchers, community leaders, environmental justice leaders gathered in New Orleans to participate in discussions on building fair and solutions to the climate crisis facing frontline communities . . .

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2024 HBCU Environmental & Climate Justice Corps

2024 HBCU Environmental & Climate Justice Corps

Jul 26, 2024

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HBCU Environmental & Climate Justice Corps

Summer 2024 Report

Interns Gain Experiential Learning at Partner CBO Sites

In the summer of 2022, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice launched the HBCU Environmental Justice and Climate Corps. The 2024 HBCU interns are helping to build the capacity of DSCEJ environmental justice partner communities along the Gulf Coast Region spanning Pensacola, FL, Mobile, AL, Gulfport, MS, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA.

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EJ Voice – Spring 2024

EJ Voice – Spring 2024

May 31, 2024

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Environmental Justice Voice Newsletter

Spring 2024 Edition

In this issue:

 

  • Worker Training Program Graduation
  • Justice40 – Celebrating our Success
  • Community Investment Recovery Center (CIRC)
  • Earth Day 2024
  • Carbon Dioxide Waste Injection – Louisiana Deserves Better!
  • SPRING HIGHLIGHTS
  • Travelogue: Dr. Wright
  • Team DSCEJ UPDATE
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HBCU Climate Change Consortium

HBCU Climate Change Consortium

Mar 8, 2024

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HBCU Climate Change Consortium

Dr. Beverly Wright and Dr. Robert Bullard founded the HBCU Climate Change Consortium in 2011 to sponsor activities that provide opportunities for HBCU students to learn about climate change science, policy and advocacy and to present their research projects on topics relative to climate change issues.

A Focus on Student Engagement

Since its inception, 33 HBCUs have participated in consortium initiatives and activities. Our reach continues to grow, noting the promise and effectiveness of our students, community leaders and residents impacted by the consortium.

Since 2011, the Consortium has supported hundreds of HBCU faculty, students and leaders from climate-vulnerable communities participate in a number of important domestic and international gatherings which are illustrated below:

Impact Timeline

2011

COP17

United Nations COP17, Durban, South Africa, 12 HBCU Delegates representing three HBCUs attended.

2012

RIO+20

Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. A six-person delegation represented the HBCU Climate Change Initiative.

2013

1st Conference

First Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 102, One Student Panel, Nine Poster Presentations.

Mar. 2014

2nd Conference

Second Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 110, Three Student Panels, 13 Poster Presentations.

Sep. 2014

People’s Climate March

Teach-In and Youth Convergence – New York, NY September, Participants 105 representing 10 HBCUs

Mar. 2015

50th Anniversary Jubilee Bridge Crossing

More than a dozen HBCUs participated. Attended “Change Is Gonna Come: Advancing an Environmental and Climate Justice Agenda in the South” Workshop.

Apr. 2015

3rd Conference

Third Annual Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 165, 5 Student Panels, 14 Poster Presentations.

Aug. 2015

Gulf Coast Rising

Gulf Coast Rising – Katrina 10 Week of Action and COP21 HBCU Delegate Training; Katrina March & Second Line.

Dec. 2015

COP21

COP21 Climate Change Conference, Paris, France

2016

4th Conference

Fourth Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA; Participants 300, 7 Student Panels, 14 Poster Presentations.

2017

5th Conference

Fifth Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA; Participants 325, 8 Student Panels, 28 Poster Presentations.

2018

6th Conference

Sixth Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA – Participants 310, 8 Student Panels, 28 Poster Presentations.

2019

7th Conference

Seventh Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 330, 8 Student Panels, 51 Poster Presentations.

Apr. 2022

8th Conference

8th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 400+, 5 Student Panels, 30 Poster Presentations.

Dec. 2022

COP27

First-Ever Climate Justice Pavilion in the Blue Zone

2023

9th Conference

9th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 400+,  9 Student Panels, 40 Poster Presentations.

2025

10th Anniversary Conference

10th Anniversary HBCU Climate Change Conference, NOLA, Participants 480+,  9 Student Panels, 46 Poster Presentations.

HBCU Climate Change Consortium Partners:

  • Alabama A&M University
  • Alabama State University
  • Alcorn State University
  • Allen University
  • Arkansas Baptist College
  • Bethune-Cookman College
  • Claflin University
  • Clark-Atlanta University
  • Coppin State University
  • Dillard University
  • Fisk University
  • Florida A & M University
  • Grambling State University
  • Hampton University
  • Howard University
  • Huston- Tillotson University
  • Jackson State University
  • Lincoln University
  • Mississippi Valley State University
  • Morgan State University
  • North Carolina A&T University
  • North Carolina State University
  • North Carolina Central University
  • Prairie View A & M University
  • Paul Quinn College
  • Savannah State University
  • South Carolina State University
  • Southern A&M University Baton Rouge
  • Spelman College
  • Tennessee State University
  • Texas Southern University
  • Tuskegee University
  • Virginia State University
  • Xavier University of Louisiana