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Jalonne White-Newsome | |
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| Born | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Northwestern University (Bachelor's 1999) Southern Methodist University (Master's 2003) University of Michigan (Ph.D. 2011) |
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| Discipline | Environmental justice |
Jalonne White-Newsome is a program officer and lecturer. She is an advocate forenvironmental justice.
Jalonne White-Newsome is fromDetroit, Michigan.[1][2]
In 1999, White-Newsome earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering fromNorthwestern University.[2] After graduation, she worked as a project engineer atU.S. Gypsum. She returned to school, and in 2003, earned her master's in environmental engineering fromSouthern Methodist University.[2][3]
Before returning to Michigan, White-Newsome worked for theMaryland Department of the Environment.[3] She moved to Michigan with her husband, and, during maternity leave from her position with a local startup, she applied to graduate school.
In 2011, she earned her Ph.D. inenvironmental health sciences from theUniversity of Michigan School of Public Health. She wrote her dissertation on exposures, vulnerability, and behaviors during heat waves.[2]
White-Newsome worked at the community-based advocacy groupWest Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT for Environmental Justice).[2][1] She served as director of federal policy in their newly opened Washington, D.C. office.[3]
White-Newsome was the first post-doctoral Kendall Fellow in Climate Change and Public Health with theUnion of Concerned Scientists.[2]
As a program officer at theKresge Foundation, where she began working in 2016, White-Newsome oversees a portfolio of grants on Climate Resilient & Equitable Water Systems.[1]
White-Newsome served on the American Society for Landscape Architecture Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience. The Panel delivered their findings and recommendations in the reportSmart Policies for a Changing Climate.[4]
White-Newsome is a lecturer at the Milliken Institute School of Public Health,George Washington University.[2]
In 2022 White-Newsome was named the Senior Director for Environmental Justice at the White House.[5]
Jalonne White-Newsome conducts research on the intersection of environment and health, especiallyclimate change and health equity. Her work is aimed at improving our understanding of how communities adapt toextreme heat events.[2]
White-Newsome advocates for equitable and just environmental policy. She has briefed members of Congress on her work and related research, specifically discussion the ways in whichAfrican Americans,Latinos,Asian Pacific Islanders, andNative Americans are exposed to higher levels ofair pollution.[6]
Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer at The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)[7]
Senior Director for Environmental Justice at the White House[8]
White-Newsome was appointed to theNational Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Change and Society from 2017 to 2022.[1][9][10]
In 2017, she was appointed Michigan League of Conservation Voters' Advocate of the Year.[11]
White-Newsome received The Environmental Management Association's Environmental Achievement Award in 2019.[12]
She received the Kingdom Living Temple “Friends of the Environment Award” in 2017.[13]
White-Newsome received “The Clean Power Plan Enforcer” byGrist Magazine in 2016.[14]
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