Commitment to Equity
Environmental Justice 2.0 for the Bay-Delta Estuary: Lessons Learned from Environmental Justice Expert-Government Agency Partnerships and Models for the Future
About the Report
This report synthesizes the discussions from a three-hour workshop focused on improving collaborations among community-based organizations, environmental justice (EJ) experts, and government agencies to advance EJ in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. The workshop was held in Oakland, Calif., on March 11, 2024, with approximately 70 participants from government agencies, community-based organizations, research or academia, nonprofit organizations, consulting companies, and communities.
The goals for the workshop were to:
1. Gain insights from EJ expert-government partners, and brainstorm ideas for future mutually beneficial collabo- ration in service of a more environmentally just estuary.
2. Develop potential new models for coordinated EJ expert-agency partnerships across the Bay-Delta Estuary to address challenges such as: limited capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) and Tribes to engage, repetitive asks from agencies for community and Tribal input, and challenges related to government contracting.
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership prepared this report with support from Little Manila Rising, Rise South City, Ninth Root, Devani Santos, Restore the Delta, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). It reflects synthesis and interpretation of presentations and discussions from the March 2024 workshop but is not intended to be a comprehensive assessment of the opportunities for advancing environmental justice in the Bay-Delta Estuary. Rather, the intent is to spur further consideration, discussion and action.
Contact Information
Sasha Harris-Lovett
