Camden Alexander
“Environmental (In)Justice” Sociology, University of UtahBiographical Info
Camden Alexander is an undergrad student double majoring in Sociology and Criminology. She worked under Dr. Sara Grineski as a Research Assistant at the Center for Natural and Technological Hazards at the University of Utah, where she researches intellectual disability in association with pollution.
Sara Grineski, Roger Renteria, and Camden Alexander (University of Utah Department of Sociology and the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards) study environmental injustice and environmental health disparities. They led an interactive workshop on environmental justice, citizen science, and air pollution monitoring through Mission STEMCAP in 2021. Their workshop included background information on environmental injustice, an introduction to the EPA’s EJ SCREEN tool for mapping environmental injustices at the community level, and building air pollution sensors using Legos.