Project Description
We request $45,975 to hire student interns to sustain environmental justice work being done by Berkeley engineering students with the Stockton AB 617 community to improve local air quality and address climate change. The AB 617 community in Southwest Stockton, CA ranks in the top 5% of the most disadvantaged communities in California. It is ranked in the worst 1% for overall pollution burden, and in the worst 4% for asthma rates. In Spring 2021, I developed a new community engaged design class (CE 105 Design for Global Transformation) where we worked with environmental justice (EJ) organizations in Stockton to help improve air quality as part of the AB 617 process, which is providing about $40 million to the community for this purpose. Through a “systems thinking” approach, students are exposed to ideas about how engineers can include socio-economic and political factors in their decision making.
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