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This almost like a complete alternate universe…

Michael Mendez has studied farmworkers for nearly a decade. He says farmworkers breathe in more toxic air because that work is similar to strenuous exercising. NPR npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-…

🎉📻 Happy #WorldRadioDay! Speaking of the airwaves, the UC Irvine School of UCI Social Ecology's own Dr. Michael Méndez recently appeared on NPR. 🌍✨ The UCI Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy scholar enlightened listeners with his expertise on farmworkers & wildfire smoke . 💬 🤔Listen: tinyurl.com/DrMMonNPR

“Communities that are low-income are not able to prepare or safeguard from these disasters because they’re not being provided with adequate resources to do so,” Mendez said. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

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Méndez’s research has documented how climate disasters disproportionately impact undocumented Latino and Indigenous farmworkers in California, even as they have “a total lack of a safety net to protect them,” he said. eltimpano.org/english/labor/…

“The best way to cope is to better understand extreme wildfire events and the methods to prepare our communities, and especially those that are most at risk and socially vulnerable,” he said. nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03/t…. National Academies

Had an amazing time at Occidental College’s critical environmental justice series! Thank you for the invitation!

Our new research memo on “Improving tribal consultation on land use, environmental projects.” socialecology.uci.edu/news/improving…

“It’s assumed automatic translations of emergency information is commonplace throughout California, but that’s not the case, particularly in our rural, agricultural areas where we have farmworkers and a large migrant population,” said Michael Méndez grist.org/equity/nationa…

Delighted to be on a panel and event with PBS Newshour anchors Judy Woodruff, Lisa Desjardins, and Ca Secretary of Natural Resources on “Wildfire Resilience.”