Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental scholar and founding director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University, discusses her work advocating for the African-American community in New Orleans. Dr. Wright was interviewed on the program UO Today on February 2, 2011.

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Dr. Wright visited the University of Oregon at the invitation of the Center for the Study of Women in Society as part of the 2010-11 inaugural series of the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, “Women’s Rights in a Global World.” Dr. Wright’s lecture—“The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering the Storm of Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Gulf”—on the evening of Feb. 2 at the EMU Ballroom was co-sponsored by the CSWS Women of Color Project, School of Law, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the ASUO Women’s Center. The Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is funded by a gift from Val and Madge Lorwin to the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law.