Environmental Justice

Mary Finley-Brook, a geography and the environment professor, is an expert in climate justice, natural resource management, and climate change mitigation and its impact on indigenous peoples, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also served on the Virginia Governor's Advisory Council on Environmental Justice.

Contact Sunni Brown, director of media and public relations, at sbrown5@richmond.edu to connect with Finley-Brook.

Media Coverage

June 18, 2024

This waste management company says it’s ‘Green For Life’ — its neighbours disagree

Mary Finley-Brook, a geography, environment and sustainability professor, is quoted.

June 6, 2023

U.S. okays Mountain Valley Pipeline in unprecedented move

Geography and the environment professor Mary Finley-Brook is quoted.

May 13, 2023

Richmond Gas Works leaks millions of dollars in natural gas each year, records show

Environmental studies and geography professor Mary Finley-Brook, an expert on American gas infrastructure, is quoted in this article, which also uses data and images from a map created by GIS Operations Manager Beth Zizzamia and the Spatial Analysis Lab.