Wednesday, September 24, 2025
12:00 to 1:00 pm
Arts 368 – In Person
Via Zoom – email icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link
Abstract
Environmental justice (EJ) and environmental health (EH) studies are poorly represented in postsecondary education. Various governmental and NGO organizations support the importance of EJ/EH education. Learning about EH and EJ lifts students’ knowledge across multiple subject areas – science, health, history, political science, sociology, business, technology and more. “Unintended Consequences” is a post-secondary curriculum integrating podcasts, curated materials, and pedagogical resources, into an Open Education Resource (OER) curriculum. Students learn through voices of those with lived experiences. “Unintended Consequences” fills a gap for urgently needed accessible knowledge that is crucial for successful efforts to sustain a healthy world.
Bio:
Stephenie Hendricks’ careers as a radio and television producer, her work as a communications consultant for environmental health and environmental justice advocates, and her experience teaching journalism and social justice communications to post-secondary students, led her to UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Sustainability theme and her doctoral project, “Unintended Consequences.”
Everyone is welcome to attend the Starting the Conversation series.
