MAEJF EJ Hub Partners

Hispanohablantes en el DMV

City of Baltimore

Pennsylvania

MD Eastern Shore and Delaware

Technical Assistance with Forestry

District of Columbia

General Assistance

Appalachian Region

Your local partner is Maritza Mendoza You can contact Maritza at maritza@empowerdc.org

Empower DC proudly shares the grassroots origins of so many powerful movement organizations that have shaped social change. Founded in 2003 by Parisa Norouzi and Linda Leaks, Empower DC builds the power of DC residents through resident-led community organizing to advance racial, economic and environmental justice. We are guided by a vision in which DC is a state where human rights and needs are met, systemic harm is exposed and repaired, and empowered residents shape the decisions that impact their lives.

www.empowerdc.org

Empower DC

Your forestry partner is professor Lemir TeronYou can contact prof. Teron at lemir.teron@howard.edu

Lemir Teron is an associate professor at Howard University in the Department of Earth, Environment and Equity. He holds a PhD in Energy & Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and completed a NOAA funded postdoc at Florida A&M University, where he also taught at the College of Law. His work is committed to advancing public science and environmental justice, with research interests that include environmental health, energy policy and urban & community forestry.

www.unlearnpower.org

Howard University

Your local partner is Rachel CasteelYou can contact Rachel at rachel@shen-network.net

SESH is a collective voice for positive solutions and inclusiveness in representation working towards healthy communities on the Lower Eastern Shore. Our vision of a healthy community includes environmental health, public health, economic health and social health. We care about our schools, keeping our communities safe, ensuring clean air and water, promoting sustainable job creation, encouraging healthy food, and loving all of our neighbors. By working together, sharing ideas and being an informed and engaged community, we create a healthy community with an amplified voice. We are students, retirees, farmers, health care professionals, teachers, firefighters, engineers, scientists, musicians, artists, and everything in between. We are fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, and grandchildren. We are family and neighbors. We are a community. We need your input.

https://seshmd.net/

Sentinels of Eastern Shore Health

Your local partner is Kia BrownYou can contact Kia at kbrown@overbrookcenter.org

The Overbrook Environmental Education Center (OEEC) is a community based center dedicated to Environmental Education, Conservation, Public Health and Personal Enrichment. The mission of the OEEC is to remove barriers from the public's full appreciation of our region’s technological and environmental resources. This center promotes public education, and participation in sustainable technological and environmental projects. The OEEC identifies creative and exciting ways to develop environmentally friendly behaviors that reduces pollution and contamination of our waterways, land and air.

www.overbrookcenter.org

Overbrook Environmental Education Center

Your local partner is Greg SawtellYou can contact Greg at greg@sbclt.org

SBCLT believes that people directly impacted by environmental, economic and racial injustice must be in the lead to create development that regenerates our communities and our planet. Building on this belief, we take land out of the extractive speculative sector and put it into the hands of the community to advance a proactive vision for development without displacement and zero waste.

www.sbclt.org

South Baltimore Community Land Trust

Your local partner is Adam WellsYou can contact Adam at trees@appvoices.org

Founded in 1997, Appalachian Voices brings people together to protect the land, air and water of Central and Southern Appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.

www.appvoices.org

Appalachian Voices

Your local partner is Eliezer Velez You can contact Eliezer at evelez@mycaf.org

Centro de Apoyo Familiar or Center for Assistance to Families (CAF) is a non-profit, HUD approved comprehensive Housing Counseling Agency. We provide free educational workshops as well as a full range of Housing Counseling services We administer our program in conformity with local, state and federal anti-discrimination laws. All workshops are conducted in English and Spanish.

www.mycaf.org

Centro de Apoyo Familiar

Your local partner is Frederick JohnsonYou can contact Frederick at frederick.johnson@ceejh.org

The CEEJH Laboratory was founded by Dr. Sacoby Wilson, full-time professor in the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, in the Fall 2011. CEEJH’s primary focus is to provide engagement to highly and differentially exposed populations and underserved communities. Our work has included the development of and participation in partnerships with community-based organizations, environmental advocacy groups, health practitioners, and policymakers (federal, state, and local government) to reduce local contamination, improve environmental quality, and enhance community health and sustainability. In 2021, to mark its 10 year anniversary, the CEEJH laboratory relaunched as the Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health (CEEJH). This relaunch is important because of the pressing regional, national, and global environmental justice and health issues that impact low-wealth Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations and communities. The scourge of the coronavirus pandemic, the constant threat of climate change, and the global movement for Black Lives has challenged the CEEJH team to step up to help those most impacted by racism, colonialism, state-sanctioned violence, and state-sanctioned environmental oppression.

www.ceejh.center

CEEJH, Inc