Engineering and Public Policy
EPP DEI Seminar: Dr. Maya Carrasquillo
March 18, 2022
12:00 a.m. ET
Wean Hall 3701 (also on Zoom)
Details
EPP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) seminar series highlights community work, policy efforts, and cutting-edge research focused at the nexus between engineering and social justice. Dr. Maya Carrasquillo will be joining for the March seminar, to discuss the role of developing an “engineering identity” in centering equity and justice in decision-making for water infrastructure design and implementation.
Speaker
Maya E. Carrasquillo (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the principal investigator of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Liberation Lab [JEDI (L)ab] at the University of California, Berkeley. The mission of JEDI (L)ab is to develop systems of critical infrastructure that supports liberation and restorative justice for all, both in the work of research and within the lab’s research community. Her research has primarily studied the intersections of stormwater management, environmental justice, and complex hydrosocial systems, particularly focusing on historically underserved, albeit historically resilient communities to develop a conceptual framework for equitable decision-making. Her work employs qualitative methods emphasizing community engagement, ethnography, and the co-creation of design solutions for critical infrastructure. Carrasquillo serves on the Climate Science and Projections Working Group of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), and a co-chair for the Water Environment Federation Public Health and Water Conference. She is currently a Huelskamp Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. She is also a certified Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP). She holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of South Florida.