Clean Air Conversations is sponsored by Mothers & Others For Clean Air. This speakers series features experts addressing the intersection of children’s health, air pollution and climate change across the Southeast.
On May 19th at 3 pm EST, we’ll kick off the series with Air Pollution & Climate Change: Impacts On Vulnerable Communities.
This exciting and important conversation will be moderated by Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley and our panelists will include Dr. Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Dr. Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor, Georgia Tech, and Rev. Michael Malcom, Executive Director, Alabama Interfaith Power and Light and The People’s Justice Council.
Please join us for this virtual event!
Event Details:
When: Tuesday, May 19th from 3:00-3:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
Where: You can join using a phone or computer. You’ll receive detailed information after you register via email.
Moderator
Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley
Rev. Durley is the former Pastor of the historic Providence Missionary Baptist Church of Atlanta, where he served for nearly 25 years. Rev. Durley’s previous roles include Executive Director of the Head Start Program for Fulton and Douglas Counties, Director of the Health Promotion Resource Center at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and founder of Perspectives, International, a consortium of historically Black colleges and universities. In 2011, Rev. Durley was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame for his contributions during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Featured Panelists
Dr. Adrienne Hollis
Adrienne L. Hollis is the Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In that role, she leads the development, design, and implementation of methods for accessing and documenting the health impacts of climate change on communities of color and other traditionally disenfranchised groups. Dr. Hollis works with environmental justice communities to identify priority health concerns related to climate change and other environmental assaults, and evaluates climate and energy policy approaches for their ability to effectively address climate change and benefit underserved communities. She develops and implements projects to document health impacts of climate change on communities of color, and ensures scientific information from UCS is communicated in a culturally competent and helpful manner to vulnerable populations. Within the Climate & Energy program, she is developing and scoping a new research agenda and strategy on climate and health; evaluating climate and energy policies aimed at reducing exposure to negative health and environmental impacts; and recommending policy approaches to foster inclusiveness and greater benefits to underserved communities, and effectively address climate change.
Dr. Kim Cobb
Kim Cobb’s research uses observations of past and present climate to advance our understanding of future climate change impacts. She received her B.A. from Yale University in 1996, and her Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2002. She spent two years at Caltech in the Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2004. Kim has sailed on multiple oceanographic cruises to the deep tropics and led caving expeditions to the rainforests of Borneo in support of her research. Kim has received numerous awards for her research, most notably a NSF CAREER Award in 2007, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008. She is honored to be a Lead Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. As a mother to four, Kim is a strong advocate for women in science, and champions diversity and inclusion in all that she does. She is also devoted to the clear and frequent communication of climate change to the public through speaking engagements and social media.
Reverend Michael Malcom
The Reverend Michael Malcom is the Executive Director of Alabama Interfaith Power and Light and a licensed and ordained United Church of Christ Minister. Rev Malcom is the former Senior Pastor of Rush Memorial Congregational UCC in Atlanta, GA. He is also the Founder of Martha’s Corner, Inc. and The People’s Justice Council which are 501(c)3 non-profits and the Environmental Justice Representative for the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ. He is currently the co-chair of the Building Power from the Grassroots Task Force with Climate Action Network International, and the co-chair of the Environmental Justice working group for the Southeast Climate and Energy Network. Rev Malcom was recently appointed to the DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis Platform as a Committee Member. He also serves on the EPA’s Environmental Justice Transition Subcommittee. He considers himself an impassioned environmental justice advocate, fighting against environmental racism and injustice. He heard, believe, and evangelize the message of environmental justice. He does this through education and advocacy from a faith-based perspective. He sees environmental justice as the moral obligation to love your neighbor and the solution to the climate crisis. True power must be built from the community level to get equitable change at the policy level.
