Join People for Community Recovery on Thursday, January 25th as we celebrate the birthday of our founder, the late Hazel Johnson. Hazel was known as the mother of the environmental justice movement, and on the 25th we'll host a conversation on the movement she founded and our continued work. Reserve your spot!

We are thrilled to welcome guest speaker Dr. David N. Pellow who is Dehlsen Chair and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on social change movements, environmental justice, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social inequality, in conversation with PCR executive director Cheryl Johnson for this special Zoom event.

Guest speaker Dr. David N Pellow's books include: What is Critical Environmental Justice?; Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement; The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice; The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); and Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. His work has been reviewed, referenced, or quoted in the L.A. Times, the New York Times, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post, and Mother Jones. He has served on the Boards of Directors for the Community Environmental Council, the Global Action Research Center, Greenpeace USA, International Rivers, and the Fund for Santa Barbara.

Reserve your spot for this free event today! To further support the movement, consider sponsoring this event! Your sponsorship helps PCR continue working in Hazel's legacy, advocating, educating and organizing our community on critical environmental justice issues.

Sponsorships are still available. Your sponsorship helps PCR continue working in Hazel's legacy, advocating, educating and organizing our community on critical environmental justice issues. Become a sponsor today!