The Associated Press published an interesting profile on EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and how she is working to make the country’s environmental movement more ethnically diverse.
"It means that I can sit in a room … and maybe use my position to hear in a different way folks who don’t feel heard. … It’s about me trying to figure out what I would like people to say about the Lisa Jackson EPA when I’m done. And I want them to say, ‘You know, she really opened that agency up, she really made ways that have lived past her for that agency to speak to people of color, to speak to the poor, and to make sure their issues are taken into account.’"
The piece also recounts Jackson’s childhood in the Pontchartrain Park suburb of New Orleans and her return in November to the site of her childhood home, which was flooded during Hurricane Katrina.
"After the hurricane I kept saying if I were rich, I would knock this house down, and rebuild an energy-efficient, elevated house for my mother," Jackson said. "But then to be able to come back as the head of the EPA and say maybe I couldn’t help my mother in her one instance, and thank God she is OK, but maybe I can help some people and help my city and help the Gulf Coast. You know even one or two times would make a difference."
Read the full story at the link below.
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