2020-21 RJS fellows Margaret Goldman (she/her), 4th year doctoral candidate in the Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society who studies abolitionist alternatives to compulsory education and the school-prison nexus, and Ethan Rubin (he/him), third year doctoral student in Education, worked on a second iteration of the Water Quality PhotoVoice Project, a collaborative research project led by Orange County residents, Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ), OC Coastkeeper and the Research Justice Shop. The project documented salient water quality issues in Orange County cities with the highest concentrations of low-income or economically disenfranchised residents. A community member, José Trinidad Castañeda, shared a photo of his bike next to some recent flooding in residential areas to capture the impact of water quality issues on the everyday lives of community members, highlighting how the flooding has created a hazard for him on his daily bike commute to work. The immediate goal of the Photovoice project is to create a policy brief to be presented at an upcoming community forum.
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