Abstract
This article highlights the ongoing lack of diversity in each of the three major types of environmental organizations—conservation and preservation organizations, governmental agencies, and environmental grantmaking foundations—and assesses how this lack of diversity has historically marginalized people of color. Assessing the history of how the environmental movement has marginalized people of color is key because from this marginalization grew the rise of the environmental justice movement and recognition from the legal system of environmental issues that disproportionately impacted people of color. Last, this article presents solutions on how environmental organizations can increase and retain diversity in their staff and leadership and put an end to the history of defining environmental issues from a predominantly White perspective.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Haley Walter, Examining the Relationship Between Environmental Justice and the Lack of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, 25 Rich. Pub. Int. L. Rev. 219 (2022).