Bio
Nicholas Shapiro is a multidisciplinary environmental researcher that studies, and designs interventions into, issues of chemical contamination and climate change. He has worked tracking the quasi-legal resale of 120,000+ chemically contaminated housing units after Hurricane Katrina, developing air monitoring systems with communities impacted by unconventional natural gas extraction, and testing fossil fuel-free means of long distance air travel.
Collaborative Lab Ethics, Collaboratively
With the rise of labs as collaborative knowledge spaces in disciplines without dominant laboratory traditions, there is an opportunity to use insights from feminist science, community science, and Indigenous theory to ensure lab spaces practice the politics they preach. This talk introduces a new project on toxic prison environments at the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental justice and seeks to go beyond discourses around ethics and collaboration to enact tensions around collaboration, consent, accountability, anti- and decolonial methodologies, speaking for and speaking with, and partnership.