How can we ground our classrooms in praxes of environmental justice? How can teachers and learners build ethical connections to local communities mobilizing against climate emergency and structural abandonment? Scholar-activist https://ams.ua.edu/people/ellen-spears/ (Ellen Spears) joins us to discuss these questions and more. Prof. Spears is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. She is a prolific author, whose most recent books include the award-winning https://uncpress.org/book/9781469627298/baptized-in-pcbs/ (Baptized in PCBs: Race, Religion, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town) (2014) and https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-the-American-Environmental-Movement-post-1945/Spears/p/book/9780415529587 (Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945) (2019). She was part of the Task Force on History, Slavery, and Civil Rights at the UA-Tuscaloosa. Her courses range from comparative ecologies, to environmental ethics and policy, to environment and film. Co-Hosts: Lucia Hulsether and Tina Pippin Music by https://akrasis.bandcamp.com/album/children-singing-in-hell (Akrasis) Image by https://unsplash.com/@djbullet (LL Sammons) via Unsplash