Overview

Overview

The EPM Student Diversity Committee aspires to promote, support, and uplift diversity in the Environmental Policy & Management graduate student community. By sharing identities, perspectives, and lived experiences, we can create a welcoming atmosphere, ensure that future environmental professionals and academics are diversity leaders, rather than followers, and address environmental issues in a holistic manner.

The EPMSDC embraces the broad definition of diversity (including, but not limited to, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and age) and works to create an environment where all people are treated with dignity, respect and kindness. The EPMSDC is dedicated to recognizing and breaking down systemic inequalities that have intersectional effects on the UC Davis EPM student body. We wish to create a community that is open to collaboration, with the primary goal of equality and equity in opportunities, learning and leadership on our campus. We aspire to recognize, appreciate and celebrate diversity inside and outside of the workplace by encouraging and promoting diversity in staffing, faculty, student admissions and speakers.

As a student-driven organization, we provide an important student perspective, advocate around issues of diversity, and build solidarity with our peers and administration. The EPM program trains the next generation of leaders in the field of environmental policy. A more diverse educational experience follows these leaders into the rest of their careers and lives through expanded skillsets, improved collaboration, and broadened horizons.