Environmental Justice Collective

Club Description

The Environmental Justice Collective (EJC) strives to recognize that intersectionality is essential to understanding the complexity of environmental justice. EJC believes all people, regardless of marginalized identity factors, have the right to thrive in healthy physical, natural, social, and mental spaces. EJC opposes the legacies of colonialism, capitalism, racism, and the heteropatriarchy that changed our relationship with the environment from one that is symbiotic to parasitic. EJC looks to Indigenous communities for guidance to reevaluate our relationships with the environment. Through direct action, community building, and mutual education, EJC strives to provide a safe space for students of color and the larger UVA community to discuss environmental injustice in the so-called United States and globally.