Unequal Burden: How Climate Change Affects Communities Differently

Leticia Zavala Coordinator /El Futuro Es Nuestro

Melba Newsome Program Coordinator /Environmental & Epistemic Justice Initiative at Wake Forest University

Zachary Turner Climate Reporter /WFAE

Where you live often affects the climate experience. This panel examines the asymmetrical climate experience and how race, income, geography, age, and health shape vulnerability and resilience. Through data, storytelling, and lived experience, panelists will explore why frontline communities face greater risk and fewer resources and what equity centered solutions must look like moving forward.