"Gatekeeping Justice: What we Must Fix to Disrupt Injustice"
Beronda L. Montgomery, Ph.D., is VCU Libraries’ 2026 Social Justice Lecturer, her talk will explore themes tied to addressing environmental justice. Specifically, she will speak about:
* Navigating power and privilege in community and maintaining versus disrupting the status quo;
* Learning from nature (sometimes referred to as biomimicry) to solve complex problems that we face and;
* Understanding how gatekeeping impedes social justice and groundskeeping as a practice can promote system care and policies that are central to social and environmental justice.
The event will take place in person at James Branch Cabell Library Lecture Hall and be live streamed via Zoom. Please register to attend.