Job o’ the Day: Staff Attorney with the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment in Delano, California!
The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE) is a California statewide organization dedicated to helping grassroots groups attack head-on the disproportionate burden of pollution and environmental health hazards borne by poor people and people of color. A project of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, CRPE was created in 1989 to fill the gap between campaigns for social change and environmental advocacy efforts. CRPE has a three prong mission in its environmental justice work. First, CRPE seeks to empower individual rural residents so that they leave a particular environmental fight with more skills than when they entered it. Second, CRPE ensures that the community involved is more united and has a greater voice in decisions that affect it than prior to the environmental struggle. Finally, CRPE works to address the environmental danger the community faces.
CRPE is currently seeking applicants for a full-time Staff Attorney position in its San Joaquin Valley office in Delano, California:
CRPE is a non-profit environmental justice organization with offices in San Francisco and Delano (Kern County, California). Our mission is to achieve environmental justice and healthy sustainable communities through collective action and the law. CRPE lawyers work closely with our Organizing Department to combine advocacy and organizing in our successful community-based approach. CRPE strongly believes in the maxims that communities should speak for themselves, and that advocates for environmental justice should be on tap, not on top. Our attorneys and organizers share a deep commitment to social and racial justice.
This is a rare opportunity to join the nation’s leading environmental justice legal team. The Delano staff attorney will work closely with Valley community groups to address the disparate impact of air pollution, water contamination, pesticides, waste facilities and poor land use planning on low income communities of color.
Visit our website at www.crpe-ej.org for background on our work.
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