22 Facts About Dorceta Taylor

Dorceta E Taylor is an American environmental sociologist known for her work on both environmental justice and racism in the environmental movement.

Dorceta Taylor is the senior associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Yale School of the Environment, as well as a professor of environmental justice.

Dorceta Taylor's book, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement is a "sweeping social history" that challenges narrative of environmental history and inspires readers to "reconsider nearly everything".

Dorceta Taylor earned a bachelor's of arts in Environmental Studies and Biology from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago in 1983.

Dorceta Taylor obtained a master's of forest science from Yale University in 1985.

Dorceta Taylor followed with a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy in 1988.

Dorceta Taylor received a joint doctoral degree in sociology and forestry and environmental studies from the School of Forestry and the Department of Sociology at Yale University 1991.

Dorceta Taylor received a National Science Foundation Minority Post-doctoral Fellowship in 1991 to study ethnic minority environmental activism in Britain.

Dorceta Taylor affiliated with the University College of London's Department of Geography while she conducted her research.

Dorceta Taylor was the chair of the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association from 2012 to 2013.

In 2012 Dorceta Taylor became the principal investigator of a five-year United States Department of Agriculture grant to study racial and class disparities in food access in the state of Michigan.

In 2015, Taylor became the James E Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice and the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability.

In 2021, Dorceta Taylor became the first Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Yale School of the Environment.

In 2014, Dorceta Taylor authored a groundbreaking report on diversity in environmental organizations.

In 2019, Dorceta Taylor published new research on the lack of diversity reporting in environmental organizations.

Dorceta Taylor conducted four studies of diversity, funded by the Joyce Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, and published in BioScience, Journal of Environmental Education, Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, and Environmental Practice.

In 2015, Dorceta Taylor launched the Environmental Fellows Program in partnership with the Environmental Grantmakers Association.

Also in 2015, Dorceta Taylor began the Yale School of the Environment branch of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

In 2018, the New Horizons in Conservation Conference, spearheaded by Dorceta Taylor, took place in Washington, DC.

In 2021, Dorceta Taylor began the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative at Yale School of the Environment.

Dorceta Taylor's award-winning book, The Environment and the People in American Cities, focused on the environmental challenges American cities faced in the 17th through 20th centuries.

Dorceta Taylor documented the race, class, and gender dynamics that arose as urban dwellers tried to deal with environmental problems.