Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy; Executive Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
A.B., ÈÕ±¾ÎÞÂë; M.C.P., UC Berkeley Ph.D., UCLA
Department Chair,
Urban & Environmental Policy
Appointed In
2005
Office
UEPI 201
Hours
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Martha Matsuoka ’83 focuses her teaching and research on community-based organizing and social movements for environmental justice, particularly in planning and policy.
Since 2015, she has served as the Executive Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, the applied community-based research and program in the department of Urban and Environmental Policy. The Institute is home to the and the Justice Summer Internship Program.
Her work on community-based research, planning, and policy draws on work with a wide range of NGOs including East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, the Urban Habitat Program, the Liberty Hill Foundation, the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, and the International Women's Network Against Militarism. She currently serves on the Board of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, a multi-racial, multi-faith organization working for the dignity and full inclusion of immigrants and people impacted by incarceration.
C Raphael, M Matsuoka, A Baptista
C Raphael, M Matsuoka
Univ of California Press; e-book
C Raphael, M Matsuoka
Social Sciences 12 (6), 343; open access
M Matsuoka, J Urquiza
GeoJournal 87 (Suppl 2), 249-266