Kay Jowers Curriculum vitae July 2018

University of North Carolina Duke University Department of Sociology Nicholas Institute Chapel Hill, NC Durham, NC [email protected] [email protected] 919-265-8528 919-660-0115

EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Ph.D., Sociology • (expected 2018) Subdisciplines: Political Sociology; Collective Behavior & Social Movements Dissertation: “A Comparative Case Study of Subnational Environmental Justice Policy and Environmental Inequality” Committee: Kenneth Andrews, Neal Caren (Chair), Deborah Gallagher (Duke University), Karolyn Tyson, and Danielle Spurlock.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • M.A., Sociology • 2013 Thesis: “Achieving Environment Justice? The Impact of State Policy on Neighborhood Levels of Environmental Inequality” Committee: Kenneth Andrews, Neal Caren (Chair), Ted Mouw Tulane University Law School • J.D. • Certificate in Environmental Law • 2004 Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine • M.S.P.H., Environmental Health Sciences (Risk, Toxicology, & Policy) • 2004 University of South Carolina • B.A., Anthropology, Magna Cum Laude • 2000

FIELDS OF INTEREST Environmental Inequality; Environmental Movements; Environmental Law & Policy; Law & Society; Computational Social Science; Mixed Methods Research Design

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED 1. Kenneth Andrews and Kay Jowers, Lawyers and Embedded Legal Activity in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 40 LAW & POLICY 10-31 (2018). 2. Kay Jowers, Amy Pickle, and Rowan Schmidt, Twenty First Century Water Asset Accounting: Implications Report, 13 WATER AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1 (2014). 3. Neal Caren, Kay Jowers, and Sarah Gaby, A Social Movement Online Community: Stormfront and the Case of White Nationalists, In Media, Movements, and Political Change (pp. 163-193). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

1 ARTICLES IN PREPARATION 1. The Impact of the Environmental Justice and Environmental Movements and Policy on Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Exposure to Neighborhood Environmental Hazards 2. Private Mechanisms for Community Solutions to Environmental Inequality with Jules Carter 3. Examining the Effect of Industrialized Hog Farming on Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Housing Markets with Chris Timmins (last presented at the NC Environmental Justice Network Research Summit, October 2017) 4. Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Racial Discrimination on Pollution Exposures in the US, with Chris Timmins and Peter Christensen.

LAW REVIEW 1. James Salzman; Craig Anthony Arnold; Robert Garcia; Keith Hirokawa; Kay Jowers; Jeffrey LeJava; Margaret Peloso; Lydia Olander, The Most Important Current Research Questions in Urban Ecosystem Services, 25 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 1, 48 (2014).

REPORTS & WORKING PAPERS 1. Jowers, Kay, and Amy Pickle. 2016. North Carolina Electricity Planning. NI WP 16-10. Durham, NC: Duke University: https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/sites/default/files/publications/ni_wp_16- 10_final_0.pdf. 2. Jowers, Kay, and Suzanne Katzenstein, eds. 2015. Environmental Justice Roundtable Report. Durham, NC: Duke University: http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/humanrights/files/ 2014/10/KIE-NIEPS-Environmental-Justice-Report.pdf 3. Jowers, Kay. 2015. Developing Tree Protection Ordinances in North Carolina: A Guide to Local Ordinance Creation. Raleigh, NC: Urban & Community Forestry Program of the North Carolina Forest Service and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission: http://www.ncforestservice.gov/Urban/pdf/treeProtection.pdf

Presentations “The Role of Movements and Legal Opportunities in Shaping Environmental Justice Policy” Joint meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association, Toronto, ON, June 2018

“Social and Environmental Justice Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Eastern NC” Duke/UNC Animal Law Symposium, Durham, NC, March 2018

“Power to the People: Energy Access & Energy Poverty” Duke University Winter Forum, Duke University Office of Undergraduate Education, Global Inequality Research Institute, Kenan Institute for Ethics, & Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Durham, NC, March 2017 (planning committee, panel organizer, & faculty mentor)

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“New Directions in the Analysis of Environmental Justice” Duke University Economics Department, Kenan Institute for Ethics, & Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Durham, NC, August 2016 (co-organizer, facilitator, & discussant)

“A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion on Environmental Justice in the US” Duke Law School, April 2016

“What Does Environmental Justice Really Look Like?” Duke Science & Society, February 2016

“Movements, Mobilization, and (Il)Legality” (panel chair & discussant) Law & Society Association, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 2015

“Impacts of State EJ Policies on Neighborhood Pollution Levels” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Berkeley, CA, October 2014

“Comparative Case Study of State Environmental Flow Policies” North Carolina State University, Water Resources Research Institute Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, March 2014

“Achieving Environmental Justice?” Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 2013

“Lawyers in the Southern Civil Rights Movement” International Meeting on Law and Society, Oahu, HI, June 2012

“Opportunities for Collaboration with Environmental Groups” Building Bridges: Tobacco Control in a Broader Context Conference, Capital University Law School Tobacco Public Policy Center, Columbus, OH 2007 (invited)

LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Nicholas Institute, Duke University •Durham, NC • 2013-present Senior Policy Associate Work with decision makers, stakeholders, and policymakers to plan and conduct research, workshops, and other events •Design, manage, and conduct legal and empirical research to develop recommendations for environmental policy at the state and local level • Develop and manage the strategic growth of the Institute’s work on environmental equity, justice, and ethics • Secure and manage research funding of research funding and serve as principle investigator on projects • Co-lead university collaboration on policy, law, and ethics • Co-direct policy lab on environmental inequality, environmental health, and environmental justice

Southern Environmental Law Center • Chapel Hill, NC • 2009-2010 Staff Attorney Represented non-governmental organizations in legal, administrative, and legislative proceedings on federal and state matters related to the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act • Served at team leader for SELC’s water quality program area •

3 Supervised and trained associate attorneys and legal interns • Assisted with fundraising and development efforts with foundations and individual donors

Sturm College of Law, University of Denver • Denver, CO • 2007-2008 Environmental Law Clinical Teaching Fellow Supervised student attorneys in representing clients in litigation matters involving federal environmental statutes, including the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Clean Air Act •Designed and delivered hands-on training for students to develop their legal research and advocacy skills • Served as coach for the College of Law’s Environmental Moot Court team • Revised syllabus and curriculum for environmental law clinic seminar

American Lung Association of Colorado • Denver, CO • 2006-2007 Legal Resource Manager Represented and advised coalition of non-governmental organizations on indoor air quality initiatives at the state and local level • Managed the strategic direction of indoor air quality policy and law-related matters • Secured and managed external funding for program-related work

Southern Environmental Law Center • Chapel Hill, NC • 2004-2006 Associate Attorney Prepared letters of intent, complaints, motions, and pleadings for filing with court on matters related to the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act • Researched legal issues on environmental justice, water quality, and agriculture as directed by senior attorneys •

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill, NC • 2010 - present Law & Society; Fall 2014/2017; Spring 2015/2018 (Instructor of Record) Organizations & Formal Bureaucracy; Spring 2017 (Instructor of Record) Social Movements & Collective Behavior; Fall 2016, Fall 2018 (Instructor of Record) Political Sociology; Fall 2012/2015 (Instructor of Record) Graduate Statistics for Sociologists; Fall 2011 (Assistant) Sociological Perspectives; Fall 2010, Spring 2011(Assistant)

Duke University • Durham, NC • 2013-present Ethics in Environmental Policy; Spring 2018 (Co-Instructor of Record) Theories of Social Change; Fall 2017 (Co-Instructor of Record) State Environmental Policy; Spring 2014 (Co-Instructor of Record)

University of Denver, Sturm College of Law • Denver, CO • 2007-2008 Environmental Law Clinic Practicum; Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008 Environmental Law Clinic Seminar; Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008

SERVICE

Boards

2010-2017 Advisory Council Member, North Carolina Conservation Network

4 2010-2015 Member of Board of Directors, Schoolhouse of Wonder 2009-2010 Member of Board of Directors, North Carolina Conservation Network

Reviewer

Mobilization State of North Carolina Attorney General’s Office Environmental Enhancement Grants

Professional Memberships

American Sociological Association Law and Society Association

BAR ADMISSIONS

2004 North Carolina (active) 2007 Colorado (inactive)

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