Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education

​Dr. Flora Lu is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an ecological anthropologist specializing in conservation politics, environmental justice, political ecology and Indigenous environmental stewardship. She served as the Provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College from 2014 - 2023, during which time she helped establish the People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) and the Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research or (H)ACER Program. She earned her doctorate in Ecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University.

Dr. Emily Murai is a Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Department and College Nine at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She has been teaching courses in first-year writing, writing-across-the-curriculum/writing-in-the-disciplines (WAC/WID), and the environmental humanities/social sciences for more than two decades. She emphasizes holistic teaching and learning, innovative pedagogies and centering students' backgrounds and lived experiences in her work. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, and a BA in American Studies and Psychology from UC Santa Cruz.

Dr. Flora Lu 是加州大學聖克魯斯分校環境研究系的教授，專注於保育政治、環境正義、政治生態學和原住民環境管理的生態人類學家。她於2014年至2023年間擔任第九學院和約翰·R·路易斯學院的教務長，期間協助成立了有色人種可持續性集體（PoCSC）和社區參與研究實習計畫（HACER）。她在北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校獲得生態學博士學位，並在史丹佛大學獲得人類生物學學士學位。

Dr. Emily Murai 是加州大學聖克魯斯分校環境研究系和第九學院的講師。她在第一年寫作、跨課程寫作/學科寫作（WAC/WID）以及環境人文學科/社會科學方面教授課程已有二十多年。她強調整體教學與學習、創新教學法，並在工作中以學生的背景和生活經驗為中心。她擁有明尼蘇達大學的人文地理學博士學位、紐約社會研究新學院的社會學碩士學位，以及加州大學聖克魯斯分校的美國研究和心理學學士學位。