Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Professor, Faculty of Humanities, HOPE Chair in Peace & Health, McMaster University
Racism and discrimination, Health and mental health of racially and culturally diverse groups, Environmental justice, Environmental justice issues in Indigenous and Black communities in Nova Scotia
Media
Ingrid Waldron Talk about Environmental Racism
Global Morning News Halifax touched base with Ingrid Waldron. The Dalhousie University professor will be taking part in a panel on environmental racism at the Halifax Central Library, Tuesday evening. She explains environmental racism and how it presents itself in Halifax.
‘This is about vulnerability’: Ingrid Waldron on the links between environmental racism and police brutality
Author Ingrid Waldron on Africville and the history of environmental racism in Canada
Environmental racism bill goes to second reading in House of Commons
There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities
by Ingrid R.G. Waldron
Fernwood Publishing
April 22, 2018
Biography
Ingrid Waldron is a sociologist, Professor & HOPE Chair in Peace & Health in the Global Peace & Social Justice Program in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University, and the Executive Director of the “Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project” (The ENRICH Project). Her research focuses on the health and mental health impacts of environmental racism and other forms of racism and discrimination in Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities in Canada, Black women’s experiences with mental illness and help-seeking, and the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities. The ENRICH Project is investigating the social, economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in Black and Indigenous communities in Canada. Her first book, There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities was published in 2018 and was turned into a Netflix documentary of the same name by actor Elliot Page, who co-produced the film with Waldron, Ian Daniel and Julia Sanderson.
The ENRICH Project is investigating the social, economic, political and health effects of environmental racism in African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw communities. In 2015, Waldron collaborated with MLA Lenore Zann to develop the Environmental Racism Prevention Act - the first bill on environmental racism to be introduced in a legislature in Canada. In 2017, she collaborated with the Nova Scotia Environmental Rights Working Group to develop and launch the Nova Scotia Environmental Bill of Rights. In 2018, Waldron was awarded the President’s Excellence Research Award – Research Impact at Dalhousie University. Her first book There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities was released in April 2018 by Fernwood Publishing.