Center for Environmental Justice
The Center for Environmental Justice at Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute seeks to enhance and elevate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary initiatives that prioritize diverse perspectives to advance environmental justice scholarship and culture throughout the university—and beyond.
The Center for Environmental Justice at Georgetown University was established in 2021, inspired by the encyclical Laudato Si’, to serve as a bridge between Georgetown’s work in ethics and its commitment to environment and sustainability. The program is now evolving to reflect its new role within the Earth Commons, Georgetown’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability.
We must amplify the frontline voices of environmental justice in our classrooms, in our nation’s capital, and in the wider world.
Center for Environmental Justice Director David Bond
The Center for Environmental Justice embraces the belief that no single discipline can fully address the complexities of environmental justice. As such, the Center seeks to elevate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary initiatives that prioritize diverse perspectives to advance environmental justice scholarship and culture throughout the university—and beyond.
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Noted public anthropologist David Bond appointed to lead Georgetown’s Center for Environmental Justice
A prominent voice in the fight against the destructive effects of fossil capitalism, Bond is an expert at integrating rigorous scholarship and experiential learning into the work of public anthropology
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April 23, 2026 On April 21, Georgetown hosted performances by actor Jesse Eisenberg, Distinguished University Professor Dr. Anthony Fauci, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and others for a special…
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Affiliated Initiatives
The Center for Environmental Justice is a founding member of the Emergent Ethics Network, a groundbreaking Georgetown initiative bringing together a cross-campus community of scholars and students addressing ethical issues crossing the disciplines of bioethics, environmental justice, and digital ethics.
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Teaching Professor, and Director of the Environmental Studies Program (ENST) and co- Director of the Joint Program in Environment and Sustainability (JESP)
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Earth Commons and Department of Sociology
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Edward and Carole Walter Professor of Law | Director
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Professorial Lecturer – Department of Theology
Senior Climate Research Fellow – Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security Justice and Institute for the Study of Int’l Migration, School of Foreign Service
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