Central Square Theater
The Brit d'Arbeloff Women & Science Theater Festival
Environmental Racism and Justice
Panelists: Cate Mingoya, biologist, Director of Capacity Building, Groundwork USA; Kerene Tayloe, Director of Federal Legislative Affairs, WE ACT for Environmental Justice; Lyndsay Allyn Cox, Central Square Theater; Anjali Shah, Lexington High School
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Suggested audience: adults and older youth
Written in the late 1990s, Kia Corthron’s Splash Hatch On the E Going Down was ahead of its time in grappling with environmental racism. Join Kerene Tayloe, Director of Federal Legislative Affairs, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and biologist Cate Mingoya, Director of Capacity Building, Groundwork USA for a conversation on the short and long-term impacts of racist environmental policies and the lack of regulation, both how it was over 20 years ago and where we are today.
The Brit d’Arbeloff Women & Science Theater Festival is a month-long Festival of virtual performances, panels and special events at the intersection of art and science. The Theater Festival is the brainchild of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT at Central Square Theater, the nation's oldest ongoing partnership between a professional theater company and a world-class research institution. The Festival was created to amplify voices underrepresented in science (women, BIPOC/Black, Indigenous, people of color), promote mentoring opportunities, encourage engagement in science for audiences and artists, and to form a national network of theaters engaged in science.