Carrie Leslie
Environmental Justice Specialist Intern
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology
Instructor for College of Arts and Sciences Environmental Studies Capstone
Carrie M. Leslie recently received her Ph.D. in Environmental Sociology & Environmental Justice, Department of Sociology in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma. She is currently serving as the Environmental Justice Specialist Intern for the Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems (IREES), also partnered with the Native Nations Center, in which she assists on community engagement efforts, implementing the Justice 40 Initiative, and community benefits’ analysis for disadvantaged communities as an integral part of federal grants with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Her research is focused on environmental justice, health disparities, and community-engaged research.
Carrie is also a faculty lecturer for Geography & Environmental Sustainability and is the Instructor for the Environmental Studies Capstone, a service-learning designated course in partnership with the JFK Neighborhood Association in Northeast OKC working to address environmental justice and health concerns, as well as air quality issues. She was an NSF NRT Fellow from 2020-2022, in the Earth Observation Science for Society and Sustainability (EOS3) Graduate Certificate Program with the Oklahoma Biological Survey, focusing on transdisciplinary and applied research in sustainability. She also previously was a Graduate Research Assistant for one of the South-Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC)’s Communities of Practice in teleconnections, telecoupling, and human-nature systems research. Carrie was the recipient of both the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship and Loretta McQuire Fellowship. She is committed to finding solutions to create climate and environmental health, as well as equity and justice for historically marginalized communities.
