Alumnus Name: Michael Dorsey (Ph.D. '05)

The Commission to Engage African-Americans on Climate Change, launched by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C., works to educate and engage African-Americans while shaping policy on climate change.  SNRE alumnus Michael Dorsey (Ph.D. '05), an assistant professor at Dartmouth University as well as a visiting scholar with the commission, notes that the success of environmental justice scholars was "largely driven by scholars of color, such as Bob Bullard at Clark Atlanta and [SNRE professor] Bunyan Bryant at the University of Michigan, and policymakers of color.”