Sustainability Now! | Cathy Gomez | Environmental Latinx | 3-14-22
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English - March 14, 2022 03:35 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, learns about young people of color getting engaged in sustainability and environmental careers, in conversation with Catherine Gomez. Cathy is currently serving as a Community Engagement Advisor for Bellarmine University, through the AmeriCorps VISTA program. Cathy is a 23-year-old Louisville native who graduated from Bellarmine with a degree in Environmental Science. She is passionate about sharing her experiences as a woman and as a person of color navigating and working within the environmental field. We discuss how she came to this work and what it was like to switch to a plant-based diet in a family of Mexican immigrants. We also take a dive into the injustices in our food system and the resulting food apartheid right here in Louisville. We also talk about her experiences as an AmeriCorps volunteer, both in DC and here at home.
Learn More about:
AmeriCorps: https://americorps.gov/
City Year: https://www.cityyear.org/
As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!
Sustainability Now! airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org
The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com