About Me
T’Shari White serves as an Adjunct Faculty member for the Environmental Sciences and Policy Program for JHU and instructs the course: AS.420.647 – Environmental Justice and Inequality. T’Shari has a background in environmental studies, sustainability, and biology; however, she specializes in environmental justice, diversity and inclusion, and Black geographies. T’Shari advocates for diverse narratives on racial inequity in the fields of Environmental Studies and Geography. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, just sustainabilities, environmental ethics, Black American environmental history, and environmental racism.
T’Shari’s dissertation research explores the connections between historical disempowerment, racial violence, and anti-Black rhetoric in America and Black environmental participation. T’Shari is an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and received her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Biology in 2014. In 2018, she obtained a Master of Science degree from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Communication. T’Shari returned to UNCG and graduated with a Ph.D. in Geography, Environment, and Sustainability.
In 2020, T’Shari was a recipient of the Summer Pre-Doctoral Multicultural Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) where she taught Race, Ethnicity, and Environment. During the fellowship, she also participated in professional development workshops with faculty and other fellows. T’Shari has also taught courses that cover the topics of geosystems, environmental policy, and sustainability. T’Shari has also taught Environmental Justice seminars for UNCG for several semesters. Currently, T’Shari also serves as postdoctoral research fellow for the University of South Carolina.
Skills & Services
DEI Consulting
EJ Education
Grant Writing
Nonprofit Management
Administrative
Community Outreach
Urban Planning
Word, Excel, Powerpoint
ArcGis, R, GeoDa
CV
(for my full CV/Resume please contact me)
Work
Education
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of South Carolina (present)
Ph.D. Geography
UNC Greensboro, 2022
Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University (Fall 2021 - present)
M.S. Environmental Studies
SUNY ESF, 2018
Instructional Assistant
UNC Greensboro (Fall 2018 - Spring 2022)
B.A. in Environmental Studies
UNC Greensboro, 2014
Publications
- White, T. (2022). "See It Our Way: Black American Wilderness Perspectives." Proquest.
- Teron, L., White, T., Nibbs, F., Khayat, F. (2021) "Destroy and Rebuild: Considering Harm, Community Benefits, and Environmental Ornamentation in Community Development in Atlanta." Global Im-Possibilities Exploring the Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities. (pp.7-23). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
- White, T. (2021). Gonna Trouble the Water. Cultural Geographies.
- White, T. (2019) Black Americans and Wilderness. NOMADS MAGAZINE.
Get in touch.
Drop me a line or two if you want to work together!
(803)-728-1366
tshari.white@gmail.com
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