Partnership between the U.S Environmental Protection Agency and EPIC-N Continues for a Third Year
By Ada Inman
The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development and EPIC-N have entered the third year of their partnership! The partnership formally began in July 2020, and this year will continue:
- Advancing campus-community partnerships to support environmental, public health, and revitalization efforts
- Researching, understanding, and communicating best practices of communities in supporting local resilience
The partnership also launched a new webinar series focused on resilience. The webinar series is on a brief pause until Marshall returns from paternity leave.
The partnership provides internships for students from higher education institutions to help facilitate these activities. This year’s intern, Sarah Meilinger, will assist EPIC-N with community impact assessment reporting.
In addition to our new intern, an EPA leader has joined the partnership team. Bonita C. Johnson from Atlanta, Georgia, is a Senior Physical Scientist with EPA’s Region 4. Through this project, she is looking forward to integrating environmental justice, climate justice and equity into EPA programs. She plans to do so by emphasizing the importance of community resilience by analyzing academic-community partnership project results. Learn more about Bonita.
Additionally, if you want to stay up to date on EPIC-N and EPA projects, past and present, follow the link below or reach out to us through the emails below!
Contact Emails
EPA: José Zambrana, zambrana.jose@epa.gov and Laura Bloch, bloch.laura@epa.gov
EPIC-N: Marshall Curry, mcurry@epicn.org
