Voices from the Valley (formerly “25 Stories from the Central Valley”) features a photo exhibit, interactive theater performances, teaching tools, oral histories, and a news feed/archive about the environmental justice movement in California’s San Joaquin Valley. I designed it in collaboration with environmental justice advocates around the 25 interviews I conducted with women environmental justice leaders for my Master’s thesis at UC Davis.

Events

Playback Theater Performances with Kairos Theater Ensemble (slideshow)

• September 21, 2010 at the United Farmworkers of America’s 40 Acres, Delano. Kickoff evening event for the second San Joaquin Valley Funders’ Tour organized by the Women’s Foundation of California.
• May 8, 2009 at the UC Davis Buehler Alumni Center

Photo Exhibits

• Photo exhibit at the Fresno Regional Foundation.  Spring/summer, 2012.
• Slideshow shown at the Labor Across the Food System conference, Santa Cruz, CA. February 5, 2012.
• Slideshow shown at community reading and Japanese anti-nuclear benefit, The Opening, Santa Cruz, CA.  October 22, 2011.
• Photo exhibit at the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust.  February – March, 2011
• Photo Exhibit at the Nelson Gallery exhibit space in the UC Davis Buehler Alumni Center. April 23 – August 23, 2009

Selected other use of photos

• Photos contributed for use in “Land of Risk/ Land of Opportunity: Cummulative Environmental Vulnerabilities in California’s San Joaquin Valley” by Jonathan London, Ganlin Huang and Tara Zagofsky. UC Davis Center for Regional Change, November, 2011.
• Cover photo of Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice by Jill Harrison, MIT Press, 2011.
• Slideshow accompaniment to “Global Warming Law Shifts Responsibility from Polluters to Communities” by Jeff Conant, AlterNet, April 21, 2011.
• Earthjustice newsletter and blog post for a national campaign to create pesticide buffer zones, 2009-2010.

Press

• River parkway exhibit features Valley’s people, Vida en el Valle, by Rebecca Plevin, February 16, 2011.
• Women Lead the Fight for Pesticide Reform in California’s Central Valley Ecosalon.org, by Vanessa Barrington, September 2, 2010.
• Sprayed, Stripped and Poisoned, One Town Fights Back… and Wins Change.org, by Ben Proffer, August 27, 2010.
• Photoblog: Women Sowing Change in the Central Valley Women’s Foundation of California Blog. August 20, 2010.
• “Women Leaders of the Central Valley Environmental Justice Movement,” Local Dirt, Producer Alida Cantor. KDVS-FM Davis, CA. June 3, 2008.

Awards

• “Advancing Public Service” profile for The Campaign for UC Davis.  August 1, 2011
• Winner of the 2011 Robert Dentler Student Achievement Award given by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.