Prof. Priscilla Ybarra, Associate Professor, University of North Texas, will be talking about environmental justice and careers in this field. Among the discussed issues: Who takes responsibility for climate change? Not who thinks about it, or who conducts research on it, or who feels guilty about it, but who, in fact, takes material day-to-day responsibility for the way climate change impacts the human sustaining environment on this planet? For people of color and the working class, climate change is not a pending outcome but a daily reality. Disasters such as wildfire and hurricanes only exacerbate what already exists. The second half of the event will be an informal discussion with students about their career choices.

For additional information or to register for the event, please visit http://dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/sustainability-professionals-speaker-series/