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Jalonne White-Newsome

Jalonne White-Newsome

American program officer and lecturer

Jalonne White-Newsome is a program officer and lecturer. She is an advocate for environmental justice.

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Early life

Jalonne White-Newsome is from Detroit, Michigan.[1][2]

Education and career

In 1999, White-Newsome earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northwestern University.[2] After graduation, she worked as a project engineer at U.S. Gypsum. She returned to school, and in 2003, earned her master's in environmental engineering from Southern Methodist University.[2][3]

Before returning to Michigan, White-Newsome worked for the Maryland Department of the Environment.[3] She moved to Michigan with her husband, and, during maternity leave from her position with a local startup, she applied to graduate school.

In 2011, she earned her Ph.D. in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She wrote her dissertation on exposures, vulnerability, and behaviors during heat waves.[2]

White-Newsome worked at the community-based advocacy group West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT for Environmental Justice).[2][1] She served as director of federal policy in their newly opened Washington, D.C. office.[3]

White-Newsome was the first post-doctoral Kendall Fellow in Climate Change and Public Health with the Union of Concerned Scientists.[2]

As a program officer at the Kresge Foundation, where she began working in 2016, White-Newsome oversees a portfolio of grants on Climate Resilient & Equitable Water Systems.[1]

White-Newsome is a lecturer at the Milliken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.[2]

In 2022 White-Newsome was named the Senior Director for Environmental Justice at the White House.[4]

Research

Jalonne White-Newsome conducts research on the intersection of environment and health, especially climate change and health equity. Her work is aimed at improving our understanding of how communities adapt to extreme heat events.[2]

White-Newsome advocates for equitable and just environmental policy. She has briefed members of Congress on her work and related research, specifically discussion the ways in which African Americans, Latinos, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are exposed to higher levels of air pollution.[5]

Selected works

Jalonne White-Newsome served on the American Society for Landscape Architecture Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience. The Panel delivered their findings and recommendations in the report Smart Policies for a Changing Climate.[6]

White-Newsome has published various papers on environmental science including "Climate change and health: indoor heat exposure in vulnerable populations",[7] "Assessing heat-adaptive behaviors among older, urban-dwelling adults",[8] "Geostatistical exploration of spatial variation of summertime temperatures in the Detroit metropolitan region",[9] and "Preventing cold-related morbidity and mortality in a changing climate".[10]

Awards and honors

Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer at The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)[11]

Senior Director for Environmental Justice at the White House[12]

White-Newsome was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Change and Society from 2017 to 2022.[1][13][14]

In 2017, she was appointed Michigan League of Conservation Voters' Advocate of the Year.[15]

White-Newsome received The Environmental Management Association's Environmental Achievement Award in 2019.[16]

She received the Kingdom Living Temple “Friends of the Environment Award” in 2017.[17]

White-Newsome received “The Clean Power Plan Enforcer” by Grist Magazine in 2016.[18]

References

  1. [1]
    "Jalonne White-Newsome". The Kresge Foundation. 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  2. [2]
    "Jalonne White-Newsome, PhD". Environmental and Occupational Health. Milliken Institute School of Public Health. George Washington University. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  3. [3]
    "Jalonne White-Newsome". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  4. [4]
    "The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appoints Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome as Senior Director for Environmental Justice | CEQ". The White House. 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
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    "White-Newsome Briefs U.S. Representatives on Environmental Justice". Press Room. Milliken Institute School of Public Health. George Washington University. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  6. [6]
    "Smart Policies for a Changing Climate The Report and Recommendations of the ASLA Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience" (PDF). American Society of Landscape Architecture. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  7. [7]
    White-Newsome, JL (2012). "Climate change and health: indoor heat exposure in vulnerable populations". Environmental Research. 112: 20–27. Bibcode:2012ER....112...20W. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2011.10.008. PMC 4352572. PMID 22071034.
  8. [8]
    White-Newsome, Jalonne (2011). "Assessing heat-adaptive behaviors among older, urban-dwelling adults". Maturitas. 70 (1): 85–91. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2011.06.015. PMC 4345125. PMID 21782363.
  9. [9]
    Zhang (2011). "Geostatistical exploration of spatial variation of summertime temperatures in the Detroit metropolitan region". Environmental Research. 111 (8): 1046–1053. Bibcode:2011ER....111.1046Z. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2011.08.012. PMC 4345124. PMID 21924413.
  10. [10]
    Conlon, Kathryn (2011). "Preventing cold-related morbidity and mortality in a changing climate". Maturitas. 69 (3): 197–202. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2011.04.004. PMC 3119517. PMID 21592693.
  11. [11]
    "A New Environmental Justice Playbook for Federal Agencies | CEQ". The White House. 2023-11-03. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
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    "The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appoints Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome as Senior Director for Environmental Justice | CEQ". The White House. 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  13. [13]
    "Board on Environmental Change and Society" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  14. [14]
    "Who We Are". National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  15. [15]
    "Michigan LCV honors leaders at Fifth Annual Innovation in Conservation Awards Gala in Detroit". Michigan League of Conservation Voters. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  16. [16]
    "Environmental Achievement Awards". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  17. [17]
    "Jalonne L. White-Newsome | SPH | Boston University". School of Public Health. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  18. [18]
    "Grist 50: Meet Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome, the policy expert carrying out Obama's Clean Power Plan". Grist. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
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