Activist-Scholar Catherine Garoupa White
I Have So Many Fond Memories Around Madera County
Catherine Garoupa White is the executive director of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, working to restore clean air to the San Joaquin Valley. They also teach at CSU Stanislaus and Columbia College. As an activist scholar, Garoupa White seeks to use data with the lived experiences of environmental justice communities to achieve health equity. Before participating as a panelist for a Zócalo/California Wellness Foundation event, “Can California Solve Its Air Quality Inequality?,” they sat down in our green room to tell us about their favorite free-flowing river, the planet they’d …