EcoWurd – Exploring the Green Divide
Posted by Green Philly on May 5, 2026
Tamara P.O.C. Russell (P.O.C.) has spent over a decade educating Black Philadelphians on why environmental justice matters and why it cannot be separated from everyday lived experiences.
“For me, environmental justice was always about the intersections. I’m in a fight for public safety and public health… really just honing in on the injustices that we were dealing with, especially since that whole uprising from that pandemic,” she says. “I was talking about environmental justice issues, but incorporating it into my stance on how these all come together.”
Through EcoWURD, she intentionally connects environmental issues to real-life conditions to communities that are often left out of the conversation.
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