The Colorado Environmental Justice Storytelling Project is a partnership between Professor Phaedra Pezzullo, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), and University of Colorado Boulder graduate students pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice to document communities disproportionately impacted by environmental harms in the state of Colorado. In Spring 2022, the pilot produced five Arc GIS StoryMaps that qualitatively supplemented quantitative data collected by CDPHE with interviews and secondary research. The  Colorado Resiliency Office Annual Progress Report 2022 featured the StoryMaps in a Community Spotlight for Supporting Strategies that “develop & deploy community engagement and civic capacity tools,” “strengthen local resilience planning,” and “integrate equity” (p. 12). The CU Boulder Environmental Center also recognized the partnership with a Civic Achievement Award in 2023. In Spring 2025, this program is launching 2.0, a second iteration of the pilot in which we will both improve the existing StoryMaps and expand this initiative.

• Assessing existing StoryMaps

  Additional Info

  5 StoryMaps are public. Undergraduate students will read and assess the existing StoryMaps to identify areas of strength and improvement.

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  Location

  on campus

  Dates

  9/3/2024 - 12/17/2024

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  No charge to attend/participate in activity or program