Leadership

Coalition members collaborate with OESS and eco-themed student organizations to advance campus sustainability initiatives.

We acknowledge that some of the past and present rhetoric and practices of the environmental movement have included colonial and white supremacist ideas. Additionally, climate change, pollution, resource extraction, biodiversity loss and other such exploitation disproportionately impacts BIPOC in this country and around the world.

We work to identify and elevate the voices, concerns and experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) students, researchers, activists, artists, and community members in order to clarify and examine environmental justice issues, assess the Sewanee community and our environmental programming through this lens, and to formulate strategies to address and improve those issues and programs.