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Cornell University, J.D. Yale University, B.A. Laura Goldin is Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University, Associate Director of the Environmental Studies Program, Director of the Environmental Internship Program and an award-winning teacher. Her courses and programs have helped lead the way in developing hands-on experiential learning that engages students directly in tackling current challenges in meaningful and sustaining collaborations with community partners. Her students have worked with local non-profits and tenants to reduce lead exposures in low income housing, assess toxic exposures to immigrant nail salon workers, create community gardens with public housing residents and educational public school gardens with K-12 children and teachers, and engaged with students in other projects and research to promote environmental health, access to healthy food and open space and community sustainability and social justice. In Goldin’s “Greening the Ivory Tower” course, students design and implement sustainability projects that create long-term improvement to the campus and community environment http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/environmental/undergrad/greeningcourse/index.html Laura Goldin also offers the immersive Environmental Health and Justice “Justice Brandeis Semester”, a hands-on, multi-disciplinary, community-engaged learning program. http://www.brandeis.edu/jbs/pastprograms/f2011/index.html In this program, a small group of students delve deeply involved into the law, policy, social impacts and science of current environmental health issues challenging individuals, families and communities today. They work directly with communities most vulnerable and affected, from low-income immigrant neighborhoods of urban Boston and Waltham to rural mountain mining townships of Kentucky suffering the effects of mountaintop removal for coal extraction. The students also conduct an environmental health study of major environmental justice concern. The fall 2011 study, assessing occupational chemical exposure to primarily Vietnamese immigrant women nail salon workers, was presented at the Academy of Sciences International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology in 2012 and published http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-013-9856-y. The follow-on study by the fall 2013 Environmental Health and Justice students was presented at both the 2014 Academy of Sciences International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology and the American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition. Cornell University, J.D. Yale University, B.A Laura Goldin is Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University, Associate Director of the Environmental Studies Program, Director of the Environmental Internship Program and an award-winning teacher. Her courses and programs have helped lead the way in developing hands-on experiential learning that engages students directly in tackling current challenges in meaningful and sustaining collaborations with community partners. Her students have worked with local non-profits and tenants to reduce lead exposures in low income housing, assess toxic exposures to immigrant nail salon workers, create community gardens with public housing residents and educational public school gardens with K-12 children and teachers, and engaged with students in other projects and research to promote environmental health, access to healthy food and open space and community sustainability and social justice. In Goldin’s “Greening the Ivory Tower” course, students design and implement sustainability projects that create long-term improvement to the campus and community environment http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/environmental/undergrad/greeningcourse/index.html Laura Goldin also offers the immersive Environmental Health and Justice “Justice Brandeis Semester”, a hands-on, multi-disciplinary, community-engaged learning program. http://www.brandeis.edu/jbs/pastprograms/f2011/index.html In this program, a small group of students delve deeply involved into the law, policy, social impacts and science of current environmental health issues challenging individuals, families and communities today. They work directly with communities most vulnerable and affected, from low-income immigrant neighborhoods of urban Boston and Waltham to rural mountain mining townships of Kentucky suffering the effects of mountaintop removal for coal extraction. The students also conduct an environmental health study of major environmental justice concern. The fall 2011 study, assessing occupational chemical exposure to primarily Vietnamese immigrant women nail salon workers, was presented at the Academy of Sciences International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology in 2012 and published http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-013-9856-y. The follow-on study by the fall 2013 Environmental Health and Justice students was presented at both the 2014 Academy of Sciences International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology and the American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition.