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This chapter showcases Leaders for Environmental Activism Reclaiming Their Health (Leaders4EARTH)‘s Environmental Justice Youth Leadership Academy (EJYLA) within the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region in which low-income migrant farmworker families experience disproportionate levels of environmental harm, from pesticide drift to siting of waste facilities. Not only is the EJYLA a space for students to share their experiences of environmental harm, but they are also a way for dreams, hopes, and desires to be re-imagined around the topic of environmental sustainability. This chapter discusses the development and implementation of the leadership academy and its implications for environmental justice education, community health and well-being, and participatory epistemologies.
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Crespo Triveño, K., Angel Bernabe, A. (2023). Environmental Justice Youth Leadership in Salinas Valley, CA. In: Lu, F., Murai, E. (eds) Critical Campus Sustainabilities. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30929-8_10
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