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Black Feminisms and Black Geographies: The Possibilities for Disaster and Climate Change Research with Fayola Jacobs (MCRP ’14)
April 5, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Save the Date! On April 21 at 12:30 the Carolina Climate Equity Commons at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents: “Black Feminisms and Black Geographies: The Possibilities for Disaster and Climate Change Research” with Fayola Jacobs, graduate of the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and now a professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs
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More info here: https://unc.live/3rZKENb
In this talk, Dr. Fayola Jacobs (MCRP ’14) will discuss Black geographies and Black feminisms as potentially useful lenses for urban planning research on disasters and climate change. She asks, how can these lenses change the questions we ask in disaster research, and how can these changed questions help us arrive at more equitable and just environmental futures?
Jacobs completed her PhD in urban and regional sciences at Texas A&M University and earned her master’s degree in city and regional planning at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her graduate research focused on interrogating disaster mitigation plans and policies through a Black feminist lens. Before graduate school, she worked for a mental health agency, creating and facilitating anti-oppression workshops on migration, racism and mental health.