Dr. Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and Dr. C.L. Bohannon, PhD, FASLA, Associate Dean JEDI and Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Virginia will meet for a live conversation on environmental justice: What is it? How does it operate in a built environment? Together, Dr. Douglas and Dr. Bohannon will also consider the ability of public art to create cultural centers and affect the possibility of just public space.
Dr. Andrea Douglas
Dr. Andrea Douglas, holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in arts management and finance from Binghamton University, NY. Douglas has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in African American, contemporary, and art theory, and has published exhibition catalogs and scholarly articles. From 2004 -2010 she was Curator of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Contemporary Art at the University of Virginia Art Museum. Douglas was recently appointed to the Governor’s Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination. She is also the co-chair of the President’s Commission on the Age of Segregation at the University of Virginia and sits on Monticello’s Advisory Committee on African American Affairs as well as the state’s History of Lynching in Virginia Working Group. She has served on the City of Charlottesville Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Monuments and Public Spaces, the University of Virginia’s President’s Commission on Slavery at the University and was chair of the city’s PLACE Design Task Force.
Dr. C.L. Bohannon
Dr. C.L. Bohannon is the Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Dr. Bohannon works in the landscape context of community history and identity, social/environmental (in)justice, and community learning. His research has contributed to the theorization and application of community engagement in design education. Dr. Bohannon teaches courses on community-engaged design research, design research methods, and seeing, understanding & representing landscapes.