Thank you Dr. Joy Banner, co-Founder of The Descendants Project and Director of Communications for The Whitney Plantation. Her lecture was on the History of Environmental Racism and can be viewed on YouTube here. She shared her living testimony and personal history about environmental racism. We are glad that Environmental Fridays was an instrument and a platform to highlight the unforgivable disrespect and danger that money, power and greed shows to both ancestors and descendants. We invite you to visit and support The Whitney Plantation and The Descendants Project.

Thank you also to our co-host this week, the amazing Regina Ruth Strong, the state of Michigan's first Environmental Justice Public Advocate. She briefly recalled how moving it was when she visited The Whitney Plantation some years ago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University, as well as a Master of Science degree from Purdue University. Regina earned her Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America and is also a Senior Fellow in the Great Lakes Region for the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).