Mayah’s Lot is Book 1 of the Environmental Justice Chronicle. Readers learn alongside Mayah as she rallies her neighbors to prevent a vacant lot in their already overburdened community from becoming a hazardous waste storage facility. Through their efforts, the abandoned lot is instead converted into a neighborhood park in an area that desperately needed greenspace
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This video was made as a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for Urban Environmental Reform, Mt Sinai’s Environmental Medicine and Public Health Program, Rebecca Bratspies, and Charlie LaGreca-Velasco.