GES Seminar: Rural Redlining and Rising Sea Levels

Join us tomorrow, March 13^th, for our next GES department seminar! We are joined with Rona Kobell, a science editor and film producer who has been covering the Chesapeake Bay area for nearly fifteen years. She will be discussing her newest film, “Eroding History,” which explores the climate crisis in redlined Black communities. Centering Black stories, the film sheds light on a great environmental injustice happening right now on our Eastern Shores. The seminar will be held at 12pm in the ITE building, room 229.

We encourage you to also join us Thursday, March 14^th for a screening of “Eroding History” inside the AOK Library Gallery. This will take place 4pm to 6pm and will offer time for a Q&A with the filmmakers. This event is in-person only. For more information on the film, visit the website for the Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative: https://www.ejji.org/film

A virtual room for the Wednesday seminar will be provided on Webex with the following link. We had a great turnout of attendees last week – thank you all very much for joining us! https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m22f84ff7fedb5728a52da5125727f51d