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Lourdes Vera (she/her/ella) is a Latina PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Social Science Environmental Health Research Insititute at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Lourdes holds an MA in Teaching Earth Science from CUNY Brooklyn College, and her BA is in Urban Studies from Barnard College at Columbia University. As a former high school science teacher, she is interested in fusing critical pedagogy with community-based science to push for anti-racist environmental policies and regulatory oversight. Lourdes is also on the coordinating committee of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which she helped form to archive, assess, and envision new infrastructures for federal and state environmental data. Follow her on Twitter @lourdes_a_vera
“I just found out we have been exposed to someone with COVID-19,” Mrs. López told me over the phone while we were planning another week of air monitoring at her home. These words are alarming for anybody to hear – not only because of the chance of having contracted COVID-19,...
Lourdes Vera & Image: Sargam Gupta