{"id":43251,"date":"2024-11-13t15:53:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-13t15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/?p=43251"},"modified":"2024-11-13t15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13t15:56:25","slug":"gwu-justice-subcommittee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/gwu-justice-subcommittee\/","title":{"rendered":"organizing for impact: gw students create new subcommittee on climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gw_ejan\/\">environmental justice association<\/a> (ejan) is a student-led organization at the george washington university where students are fighting to enact positive change in environmentalism. ejan is made up of three subcommittees: a book club, a volunteering group, and the newly added policy and advocacy subcommittee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the policy and advocacy subcommittee has decided to pursue a year-long project on equitable land use in d.c.\u2019s waste infrastructure. this project will further focus on waste systems in d.c., looking at the distribution of waste facilities and practices over the eight d.c. wards. the team is currently in the process of gathering further background information on the history of waste in d.c., current procedures, and the different stakeholders involved. they are hoping to combat the discrepancies in this system that disproportionately affects poorer neighborhoods in d.c.. ejan\u2019s co-presidents kaitlyn gang and jonathan lippolis spoke on the importance of advocating for the environment in the political sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ejan is a relatively new organization at gw. \u201cit\u2019s kind of a complicated story, originally ejan was started in 2020 by a group of students,\u201d lippolis said. \u201cthey came into the first year with the idea of having subcommittees, i think that was kind of from the jump, and then that first e-board came about and founded ejan.\u201d after the original e-board graduated, gang and lippolis continued the club with the rest of the subcommittees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>gang and lippolis share a strong passion for environmental advocacy. \u201ccoming into gw i was undecided, i didn\u2019t know what i wanted to do, i was actually more interested in stem before this, like biology. then i took the society and environment class and just loved it,\u201d gang explained. \u201cthat entire class i feel like really made me fall in love with environmental studies which is why i ended up choosing the environmental studies major.\u201d gang is also a political science major at gw, making a policy and advocacy subcommittee perfect for her skillset. lippolis first became interested in ejan out of a desire to participate in climate groups. \u201ci wanted to get involved in climate related issues and movements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gwu&#8217;s environmental justice association has launched a new subcommittee focused on environmental justice in d.c.\u2019s waste infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4916,4902,5195],"tags":[],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-43251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-colleges-education","category-justice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v24.0 - 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