Jack August McEachern Receives the Situation Prize for Research

Jack August McEachern has been selected as a recipient of the Situation Prize for Research - Community, Cause and Advocacy with an award of $500. Following is a summary of his award winning research project:

"Under the supervision of Jennifer Dodge, Associate Professor at Rockefeller College, I have been exploring how to integrate theories of justice into material action. 

My theory work focuses on the Green New Deal and the limitations it has as a policy framework. The Green New Deal claims to deliver environmental justice through social-democratic policy. However, with the rise of racial protests in the US, I began to doubt this sweeping claim. By bringing in different perspectives, we see that the Green New Deal claims a narrower environmental justice than stated as it fails to include a plurality of communities and excludes marginalized groups from the conversation. 

As a community organizer, I hope to integrate my research into my material action. Currently, I am organizing a Youth Congress on Climate Justice, which seeks a more radical and inclusive definition of climate justice by bringing a plurality of groups into conversation. The hope is that we build new definitions of climate justice, democracy, and struggles that are localized, intersectional, and visionary. We hope to interpret a new future, so radically brilliant compared to our current reality, that it mobilizes our movement into action. Please follow @youthcongressonclimatejustice on Instagram to learn more."