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The Mellon Foundation has awarded Trinity College a Higher Learning grant<\/a> to support a new project, \u201cUrban Environmental Justice in Hartford.\u201d<\/p>\n

A three-year, $500,000 grant will fund a humanities-centered project of community engagement, student and faculty research, and curricular development.<\/p>\n

The three Trinity centers that proposed the project\u2014the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS), the Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER), and the Center for Caribbean Studies (CCS)\u2014will work in close collaboration with Hartford-based community partners at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (HBSC), which aims to advance social justice and literary activism, and the Center for Leadership and Justice (CLJ), which houses the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance (GHIAA).<\/p>\n

During nearly 11 years leading Trinity, President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has worked to strengthen partnerships in the College\u2019s home city, leading to the expansion of Trinity\u2019s footprint into downtown Hartford and launching CHER to coordinate the work of five core community engagement programs. \u201cThe important work of the Urban Environmental Justice in Hartford project is exemplary of Trinity\u2019s continued urban engagement,\u201d Berger-Sweeney said. \u201cTrinity is proud to be a community of thinkers and doers, driven by our passion to contribute to the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trinity team leading this work includes Garth A. Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies; Abigail Fisher Williamson, associate professor of political science and public policy and law; and Amanda J. Guzm\u00e1n, assistant professor of anthropology; with support from Eric A. Galm, professor of music; Erica M. Crowley, CHER\u2019s senior director of academic programs; and Mary Mahoney \u201909, digital scholarship strategist.<\/p>\n

The team aims to encourage informed public dialogue on how historical land-use decisions have imposed health and environmental consequences on Hartford\u2019s predominantly Latine and Black residents and to build regional consensus to address challenges brought about by that history.<\/p>\n

Photo: Shutterstock\/F11Photo<\/p>\n

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