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.
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).
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/pilr/vol25/iss3/9