S6E4: From Plantations to People-Powered Resistance: Environmental Justice with Chandra Taylor-Sawyer

In this episode, we talk with Chandra Taylor-Sawyer, Senior Attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center about Environmental Justice communities in the South, their ties to former plantation lands, and how strategic legal action can empower communities facing environmental harm.

Southern Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal team working across five Southern states to protect people and the environment. In addition to her position as Senior Attorney in which she specializing in water quality and environmental justice issues, Chandra Taylor-Sawyer also serves as leader of the Environmental Justice Initiative at SELC. A native of Kinston in eastern North Carolina, Taylor-Sawyer earned her undergraduate and law degree from the University of North Carolina, and she was a fellow with the Vermont Law School Environmental Justice Exchange Program between the U.S. and China. She has led work in North Carolina to force cleanups at contaminated industrial sites, stop water pollution threatening North Carolina communities, and shaped transit and landfill policies.

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