Citation

Sullivan J, Parady K. New Solut. 2019; 28(4): 622-636.

Affiliation

University of Texas Medical Branch/Sealy Center for Environmental Health & Medicine, Galveston, TX, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Baywood Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1048291118811341

PMID

30463477

Abstract

In this interview, Sharon and David Gauthe of Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing (Thibodaux, Louisiana) document their personal experiences with adverse health outcomes that seem connected with oil spill exposures and explain their community organizing model based on interfaith collaboration and informed by the methodology and practice values of social work. They also comment on their conceptual framework of the entire Gulf Coast as a regional environmental justice zone, for which they received a Guardian of the Gulf Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Language: en

Keywords

Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing; Deepwater Horizon oil spill; citizen science; community-based participatory research; environmental justice; risk communication