Laura Díaz, MPH
@lauramardiaz.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Env Health Sciences, UC Berkeley | ED, Educator Collective for #EJ | ACEs, mitochondria, community liberation, YPAR
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Laura Díaz, MPH
@lauramardiaz.bsky.social
· Nov 22
It was a privilege to talk w/Brian Bienkowski on the @agentsofchangeEJ.bsky.social and @EHNewsroom.bsky.social podcast about growing up in an #EJ community and how that has shaped my research.
www.ehn.org/social-and-e...
www.ehn.org/social-and-e...
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The nice things we could have if folks weren’t so committed to white supremacy.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The nice things we could have if folks weren’t so committed to white supremacy.
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A sad reality… gaslighting and performative actions are still the norm.
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A sad reality… gaslighting and performative actions are still the norm.
stop platforming problematic and harmful academics engaging with community. Their behavior/actions/research is a practice of epistemic violence.
Spend the time to support and amplify URM researchers who carefully practice holistic community-engaged research.
Spend the time to support and amplify URM researchers who carefully practice holistic community-engaged research.
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
stop platforming problematic and harmful academics engaging with community. Their behavior/actions/research is a practice of epistemic violence.
Spend the time to support and amplify URM researchers who carefully practice holistic community-engaged research.
Spend the time to support and amplify URM researchers who carefully practice holistic community-engaged research.
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A colleague recommended paying attention to and reading Attiah. I did, I do. Passing along the recommendation. As she writes: "Institutions may cancel me, but my pen and my teaching will not be silenced. If anything, my voice will be sharper now." Relentless forward momentum.
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A colleague recommended paying attention to and reading Attiah. I did, I do. Passing along the recommendation. As she writes: "Institutions may cancel me, but my pen and my teaching will not be silenced. If anything, my voice will be sharper now." Relentless forward momentum.
I am thrilled to share our publication in Environmental Justice (Journal)-
“Transforming the University into a Public Good for Environmental Justice Action: Our Experience from a Decolonial and Latinx Community–Academic Partnership”.
liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.10…#EJEJ
“Transforming the University into a Public Good for Environmental Justice Action: Our Experience from a Decolonial and Latinx Community–Academic Partnership”.
liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.10…#EJEJ
August 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I am thrilled to share our publication in Environmental Justice (Journal)-
“Transforming the University into a Public Good for Environmental Justice Action: Our Experience from a Decolonial and Latinx Community–Academic Partnership”.
liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.10…#EJEJ
“Transforming the University into a Public Good for Environmental Justice Action: Our Experience from a Decolonial and Latinx Community–Academic Partnership”.
liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.10…#EJEJ
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ISSI is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize: @lauramardiaz.bsky.social from @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social & Clara Pérez Medina from @ucbgeography.bsky.social. Learn about their social change scholarship on our home page!
July 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
ISSI is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize: @lauramardiaz.bsky.social from @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social & Clara Pérez Medina from @ucbgeography.bsky.social. Learn about their social change scholarship on our home page!
Our org, Educator Collective for Environmental Justice, will be co-sponsoring the workshop. Please share with educators!
AND Samrat Pathania (co-director of our org) will be speaking on decarbonization and our on-going EJ/decarb Educator cohort!
#professionaldevelopment
#ej
AND Samrat Pathania (co-director of our org) will be speaking on decarbonization and our on-going EJ/decarb Educator cohort!
#professionaldevelopment
#ej
July 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our org, Educator Collective for Environmental Justice, will be co-sponsoring the workshop. Please share with educators!
AND Samrat Pathania (co-director of our org) will be speaking on decarbonization and our on-going EJ/decarb Educator cohort!
#professionaldevelopment
#ej
AND Samrat Pathania (co-director of our org) will be speaking on decarbonization and our on-going EJ/decarb Educator cohort!
#professionaldevelopment
#ej
I am eternally grateful those academics who have encouraged my own academic free thought and expression. And as we embark on these dangerous times, I will continue to support fellow liberatory practitioners. #freedomepistemologies
July 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am eternally grateful those academics who have encouraged my own academic free thought and expression. And as we embark on these dangerous times, I will continue to support fellow liberatory practitioners. #freedomepistemologies
Radio silence for supporting PhD students - with our academic future most certainly uncertain (more likely impossible at this point).
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Radio silence for supporting PhD students - with our academic future most certainly uncertain (more likely impossible at this point).
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If you’re tired of complicit academic organizations/conferences and want to organize and fight alongside concrete struggles, check out the Decolonial Conference, which emerged from a People’s Assembly.
www.decolonialconference.org
www.decolonialconference.org
Decolonial Conference | Join to Organize & Fight for Liberation
Engage with activists, movements, and politically committed scholars at the Decolonial Conference. Register now to challenge oppression and support liberation movements.
www.decolonialconference.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you’re tired of complicit academic organizations/conferences and want to organize and fight alongside concrete struggles, check out the Decolonial Conference, which emerged from a People’s Assembly.
www.decolonialconference.org
www.decolonialconference.org
I'm grateful to have been awarded the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Thomas I. Yamashita Prize! They award a "person whose work transforms the existing social landscape - often in subtle and previously unappreciated ways - and serves as a bridge between the academy and the community.”
May 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm grateful to have been awarded the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Thomas I. Yamashita Prize! They award a "person whose work transforms the existing social landscape - often in subtle and previously unappreciated ways - and serves as a bridge between the academy and the community.”
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Normally, I use my social media to highlight inequities in academia but right now, it all feels like one huge mess.
I do want to point out though that some people (many of them trainees) are suffering doubly or triply so in the current funding environment, and we should not lose sight of that.
I do want to point out though that some people (many of them trainees) are suffering doubly or triply so in the current funding environment, and we should not lose sight of that.
April 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Normally, I use my social media to highlight inequities in academia but right now, it all feels like one huge mess.
I do want to point out though that some people (many of them trainees) are suffering doubly or triply so in the current funding environment, and we should not lose sight of that.
I do want to point out though that some people (many of them trainees) are suffering doubly or triply so in the current funding environment, and we should not lose sight of that.
Grateful that our team is presenting on Environmental Justice and Climate Resistance at the We the Future Conference tomorrow!
We will continue to build power within the #EJ movement. Unafraid, empowered, moving progress towards more just environments.
wethefuture.santarosa.edu/conference-s...
We will continue to build power within the #EJ movement. Unafraid, empowered, moving progress towards more just environments.
wethefuture.santarosa.edu/conference-s...
April 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Grateful that our team is presenting on Environmental Justice and Climate Resistance at the We the Future Conference tomorrow!
We will continue to build power within the #EJ movement. Unafraid, empowered, moving progress towards more just environments.
wethefuture.santarosa.edu/conference-s...
We will continue to build power within the #EJ movement. Unafraid, empowered, moving progress towards more just environments.
wethefuture.santarosa.edu/conference-s...
Interesting what **some** (not all) academics/ institutions will stand up for— and what they will stay silent for.
March 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Interesting what **some** (not all) academics/ institutions will stand up for— and what they will stay silent for.
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First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪
March 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪
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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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White academics, if you REALLY want to disrupt academia and dismantle the imbalances that exist within it, start taking Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer/trans, and disabled scholars' work seriously.
Fly us out for interviews. Cite us. Pay us for talks.
Treat us like colleagues.
Fly us out for interviews. Cite us. Pay us for talks.
Treat us like colleagues.
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
White academics, if you REALLY want to disrupt academia and dismantle the imbalances that exist within it, start taking Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer/trans, and disabled scholars' work seriously.
Fly us out for interviews. Cite us. Pay us for talks.
Treat us like colleagues.
Fly us out for interviews. Cite us. Pay us for talks.
Treat us like colleagues.
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Good morning from NBA All-Star Friday where former Wazzu standout Jaylen Wells had some custom shoes made in honor of his former D-II school Sonoma State for the events of this weekend.
February 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Good morning from NBA All-Star Friday where former Wazzu standout Jaylen Wells had some custom shoes made in honor of his former D-II school Sonoma State for the events of this weekend.
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Expecting a school of public health program to prioritize student wellbeing while training shouldn’t be radical.
February 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Expecting a school of public health program to prioritize student wellbeing while training shouldn’t be radical.
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NEW: Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist.
"We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts." @lauramardiaz.bsky.social @agentschangeej.bsky.social
www.ehn.org/environmenta...
"We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts." @lauramardiaz.bsky.social @agentschangeej.bsky.social
www.ehn.org/environmenta...
Op-ed: Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist
We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts.
www.ehn.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
NEW: Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist.
"We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts." @lauramardiaz.bsky.social @agentschangeej.bsky.social
www.ehn.org/environmenta...
"We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts." @lauramardiaz.bsky.social @agentschangeej.bsky.social
www.ehn.org/environmenta...
And yet, the actual structural, procedural and pedagogical changes necessary to address the root cause will never be put in place. And faculty will scoff this off as a rite of passage, enabling the academic training hazing…
New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students.
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2024 at 4:53 AM
And yet, the actual structural, procedural and pedagogical changes necessary to address the root cause will never be put in place. And faculty will scoff this off as a rite of passage, enabling the academic training hazing…
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When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics.
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics.
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
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Hot off the press✨ 📣
A coalition of trans- and interdisciplinary #HWC professionals have come together to pose the idea of constellations of coexistence
We are advocating for HWC mitigation strategies that are grounded in local and global connected realities
A coalition of trans- and interdisciplinary #HWC professionals have come together to pose the idea of constellations of coexistence
We are advocating for HWC mitigation strategies that are grounded in local and global connected realities
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Hot off the press✨ 📣
A coalition of trans- and interdisciplinary #HWC professionals have come together to pose the idea of constellations of coexistence
We are advocating for HWC mitigation strategies that are grounded in local and global connected realities
A coalition of trans- and interdisciplinary #HWC professionals have come together to pose the idea of constellations of coexistence
We are advocating for HWC mitigation strategies that are grounded in local and global connected realities
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...