����TV’s Environmental Studies program will host Nancy Tuana during its inaugural Environmental Justice Lecture. Her talk, “The Climate of Justice: Climate Change and Social Justice,” will explore effective ways to address root problems causing both climate change and social injustices.

Tuana is the Dupont/ Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Founding Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. Since the early 2000s, her pioneering work on climate justice has reshaped global understanding of the synergies between climate change, systemic racism and gender inequality. She was instrumental in bringing issues concerning climate ethics to the United Nations Conference of the Parties. Her recent book, Racial Climates, is hailed for explaining why climate solutions will fail unless they redress systemic injustices rooted in intersectional disparities. In 2022, the International Society for Environmental Ethics presented Tuana with the Victoria Davion Award for Intersectionality in Environmental Ethics.