A collaboration with RTI International, EPA, and the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Summary

The UGA College of Engineering serves as one of eight university partners with nonprofit research institute RTI International to establish the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (EJ TCTAC) to help communities across the Southeast advance environmental justice.

Objective and Approach

Each EJ TCTAC will provide training and support in navigating federal grant application systems, writing grant proposals, and managing grant funding. In addition, they will provide guidance on community engagement, meeting facilitation, and translation and interpretation services for limited English-speaking participants, with a goal of removing barriers and improving accessibility for communities with environmental justice concerns.

Coordinated by RTI International, REACT4EJ project partners include the University of Georgia, Alabama A&M University, Florida A&M University, Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Memphis, and the University of South Carolina.

The UGA REACT4EJ team consists of IRIS affiliates Christina Fuller, Alysha Helmrich and Felix Santiago-Collazo. The team is collaborating with community-based organizations ECO-Action and One Hundred Miles to address environmental justice within the state of Georgia. The group hopes to collaborate with an extended network of grassroots community groups, municipalities, agencies, and others to implement sustainable, long-term environmental justice solutions.

Lead Researcher

Christina Fuller, University of Georgia,
Christina.fuller@uga.edu