Vermont Law School: Embedded Racism in the Law: What Does this Moment Require from Us?

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A RECKONING ON ECONOMICS, RACE, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC with guest speaker Jacqueline Patterson, founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project. Previously she served as the senior director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Patterson served as a senior women’s rights policy analyst for ActionAid, assistant vice-president of HIV/AIDS programs for IMA World Health, outreach project associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, research coordinator for Johns Hopkins University, and as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica and the West Indies. She has worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist working on women’s rights, violence against women, HIV/AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, emergency response, and environmental and climate justice.

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