CSE grad student Jabari Jones advocates for equitable geoscience
Photo credit: Jabari Jones
In May 2020, Jabari Jones joined hundreds of other Minnesotans on the streets of Minneapolis to protest the murder of George Floyd.
October 20, 2021
“As a mixed-race black man who has spent 25 of his 28 years in South Minneapolis, the killing of George Floyd was closer to home than any of the police-involved killings that have made headlines in recent years,” said Jones, a Ph.D. student in the College of Science and Engineering's Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences (ESCI) and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL). "Throughout [that] summer, I was thinking about how what I was doing—protesting and volunteering—fit in with this other life that I’m living at the U."
Since then, Jones, a recipient of the College of Science and Engineering's Lee S. Whitson Fellowship, has participated in various outreach and research programs. From joining a nationwide stream restoration project to publishing an editorial on the fight for equitable geosciences in the academic journal AGU Advances, Jones is finding ways to bring discussions of race and environmental justice into his work at the University of Minnesota.
Read the full story on Jones on the SAFL website.
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