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A new initiative to reconsider discriminatory names on public features in California has led to the renaming of Patrick’s Point State Park in Humboldt County. The park is now called Sue-Meg State Park. The name change comes at the request of the Yurok tribe.
Jessica Cejnar / Monday, May 10 @ 6:02 p.m. It’s Emotional and It s Not For the Faint of Heart ; True North Committee Embarks on Getting Patrick s Point, Fort Humboldt, Peacock Bar Renamed in Local Languages
Patrick s Point State Park, where Sumeg Village is located, is one of the state park units True North Organizing Network is proposing to rename. Photo courtesy of California State Parks.
Six months after California officials laid the groundwork for changing names of places associated with discrimination and genocide against Native Americans, a new True North Organizing Network committee has come up with three candidates Patrick’s Point, Fort Humboldt and Peacock Bar.
Adrienne L. Hollis, climate justice and health scientist
Hollis work: Hollis oversees the development and implementation of programs to measure and track the health impacts of climate change on communities of color and other traditionally disenfranchised groups at the Union of Concerned Scientists, according to the organization s website. She is developing new research to understand how climate change affects health and makes policy recommendations to foster inclusiveness and greater benefits to underserved communities. (Read more here.)
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Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists
The diversity she has observed in her career: Hollis began her research on issues related to health effects from ozone exposure more than 30 years ago, she says. During that time, there was very little or no diversity in related industries or companies, and very little in academic studies in general.
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Adrienne L. Hollis, climate justice and health scientist
Hollis work: Hollis oversees the development and implementation of programs to measure and track the health impacts of climate change on communities of color and other traditionally disenfranchised groups at the Union of Concerned Scientists, according to the organization s website. She is developing new research to understand how climate change affects health and makes policy recommendations to foster inclusiveness an