Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

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Center for Just Environmental Futures

The Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures (Futures Center) advances rigorous scholarship, education, and collaboration at the intersection of justice and sustainability. The Center brings together faculty, researchers, students, and community partners to address the intertwined challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, and inequality—recognizing that environmental crises exacerbate inequities, inequities fuel environmental crises, and enduring solutions must strengthen both human dignity and ecological resilience.

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Michelle Anderson

Larry Kramer Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Nicole Ardoin

Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Ines M. L. Azevedo

Perry L. McCarty Director at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor of Energy Science Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, at the Woods Institute and Professor, by courtesy, of Earth System Science

Xavier Basurto

Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and, by courtesy, of Oceans

Maxine Burkett

Faculty Director, Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures and Emerson Collective Professor of Climate, Environment, and Society

David Cohen

WSD-HANDA Professor of Human Rights and International Justice and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Gretchen C. Daily

Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Jenna Davis

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Environmental Social Sciences and Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute

Giulio De Leo

Professor of Oceans, of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Rodolfo Dirzo

Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives in Environmental Justice, Bing Prof in Environmental Science, Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Scott Fendorf

Terry Huffington Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor of Photon Science

Sarah Fletcher

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Zephyr Frank

Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Tadashi Fukami

Professor of Biology and of Earth System Science

Aidee Guzman

Assistant Professor of Biology

Holmes Hummel

Managing Director, Energy Transition Strategies, Precourt Institute for Energy

Rob Jackson

Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy

Jon Krosnick

Frederic O. Glover Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication and of Political Science, of Environmental Social Sciences and, by courtesy, of Psychology

Angelle Desiree LaBeaud

Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Environmental Social Sciences

Stephen Luby

Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

Fiorenza Micheli

David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Professor of Oceans and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Dena Montague

Lecturer, Earth Systems Program

Rosamond Naylor

William Wrigley Professor, Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute, and at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Emerita

Khalid Osman

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Emily Polk

Director of Writing and Arts for Doerr School of Sustainability, Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Kyoko Sato

Associate Director Science, Technology and Society

Deborah Sivas

Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law, Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Rebecca Tarlau

Associate Professor of Education at Stanford Graduate School of Education

Michael Wara

Melvin and Joan Lane Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Elliott White Jr.

Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Michael Wilcox

Senior Lecturer, Native American Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Jane Kathryn Willenbring

Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and, by courtesy of Earth System Science

Mikael Wolfe

Associate Professor of History

Gabrielle Wong-Parodi

Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

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The Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures is part of the Sustainable Societies Initiative at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.