ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Brendolyn Jenkins Boseman/Christopher Hall
Program Chairs

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Our founder returned to South Carolina in 1993 to open a funeral home in Elko, South Carolina near her hometown of Barnwell. While operating the business she was invited to serve on the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (DOE-SRS) Citizen Advisory Board (CAB). This Board offered proposals to the site on clean up and remediation, storage and shipment of the materials used during the operation of the facility. The “site” covers more than 300 square miles and encompasses land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties. 

By the time her service ended on the CAB, she had been introduced to Environmental Justice Movement. After closing the funeral homes and establishing The Imani Group, the work around Environmental Justice issues became paramount in our work. We have served as Community Partners for Dept. of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency for two very successful rounds of Superfund Job Training Initiative that placed 50+ Material Handlers and Operators at DOE-SRS. 

We are the conveners of community meetings on both sides of the river in communities in Georgia and South Carolina to address Environmental Justice issues at local chemical, nuclear, industrial sites throughout vulnerable communities. We are charter members of the SC Environmental Justice Network serving with New Alpha CDC (Florence), Loretta M. Slater Foundation (Florence, and Low country Alliance for Model Communities (North Charleston). 

Additional partners are the Pee Dee Indians and SC State University Environmental Justice Group. We have served in delegations to three United Nation Conference of Parties (COP) – Copenhagen, Durban and Cancun. 

We are affiliated through membership and the intersectionality of our work with many other organizations whose work focuses on Climate Change and Environmental Justice. In April of 2019 we attended the Climate Reality Project Training in Atlanta GA with former Vice President Al Gore. Our delegation of 10 included 6 youth members.
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