Equitable Green Homes? Housing, Health, and Energy in a Changing Climate
As the impacts of climate change exacerbate all over the world, issues around housing, energy poverty and gentrification become more complex to deal with in equitable ways. We invite you to be part of a conversation with three interdisciplinary panellists who's work intersects at the core of the question "How can we keep everyone healthy and well as we work towards mitigating and adapting to climate change?". Join us as we find unexpected connections and points of intervention!
About the Panellists
Evelyn Amponsah is an interdisciplinary scholar of Black diaspora, memory, temporality, and political life whose work spans Canada, Ghana, and the broader Black Atlantic. She holds a PhD in Social & Political Thought from York University and recently comepleted a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at York University’s Climate and Equity Lab. Across her research, Evelyn examines how Black communities navigate ruptured histories, racial power, and institutional harm, and how cultural and community practices become tools for dignity, survival, and collective possibility.
Patricio Belloy is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics, Universidad Austral de Chile. His research and practice explore how environmental, energy, and climate policy and action can concurrently promote community development through meaningful engagement and knowledge co-production. Patricio holds a PhD and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He earned a BBA from Austral University of Chile and an MA in Global Studies from Leipzig University (Germany) and Wroclaw University (Poland). He is a former MIT Mel King Community Fellow.
Mylène Riva is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Housing, Community and Health. She leads an interdisciplinary and applied research program sits at the intersection of health geography and population health with a particular focus on how housing and community environments shape health and well‑being across diverse populations and settings. Her research is rooted in the principles of social justice and sustainability (her research connects to 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals). She is committed to working with communities, organizations, and governments to provide rigorous scientific evidence that can be used to inform practice and public policy. Prof. Riva has mentored over 40 trainees, from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral levels. She is the author and co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and research reports. As a principal investigator, her research is funded by health and social sciences research councils; as a co-investigator, her research is further supported by natural sciences and engineering research councils. Her work is published in journals spanning geography, public health, housing and energy studies.
This event will be chaired by Lina Brand Correa, Faculty Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research & Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.
Register below and join us on February 27 at noon!
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