"A dispatch from the 2018 Society of Environmental Journalists Convention in Flint, Michigan"
"When it comes to leadership in environmental organizations, key positions are still held by white men.
Ethnic minorities represent less than 20 percent of staff at environmental organizations, despite representing more than 40 percent of the U.S. population, according to Dorceta Taylor, a University of Michigan professor who authored a 2014 study looking at the disparity. In environmental advocacy and grantmaking organizations as well as governmental agencies, power is held largely by white men, according to the study.
"We haven't solved the problem, but there's been an upward trend," Taylor said Friday at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference. "
Kristina Marusic reports for Environmental Health News October 5, 2018.
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