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Allison Stevens

Former Senior Editor and Research Advisor

Alina Gonzalez, Allison Stevens | April 14, 2021

Advocates, Scholars of Color Call for Bold Action to End Environmental Racism

Scholars and advocates of color last week hailed the Biden administration’s efforts to ensure that disadvantaged communities reap the benefits of federal climate investments — but added that the administration must be held accountable for following through on it.

Allison Stevens | February 25, 2021

Clean Water Is a Human Right. Let’s Start Treating It Like One.

Seven years ago, public officials in cash-strapped Flint, Michigan, cut city costs by tapping the Flint River as a source of public drinking water. So began the most egregious example of environmental injustice in recent U.S. history, according to Paul Mohai, a founder of the movement for environmental justice and a professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.

Allison Stevens | February 12, 2021

‘All Labor Has Dignity’: It’s Long Past Time to Realize King’s Dream of Humane Working Conditions for All

A half century ago, hundreds of Black sanitation workers marched through Memphis carrying signs bearing four small words: "I am a man." Their short slogan carried a powerful message: Low-paid Black workers are human, and they deserve to be treated as such. Their lives, to quote today's activists for racial justice, matter.

Allison Stevens | February 5, 2021

Paid Sick Leave Is a Civil Rights Issue, Too

All workers need the ability to earn paid sick days so they can take leave from their jobs to care for themselves or their loved ones when they are sick or injured. The coronavirus pandemic has made the need for this basic right -- guaranteed to workers in other wealthy nations but not here in the United States -- clearer than ever. Paid sick leave is more than a workers' rights issue. It's also a civil rights issue.