Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships Digital Workshop

Friday November 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)

Why do environmental humanities scholars, writers, and activists partner with community groups and public institutions? How do we identify possible partners to co-design projects, collaborate with, and support? And how do we initiate conversations and connections? What practical steps can help us prepare to participate in equitable, respectful partnerships? In this interactive digital workshop, we’ll explore these questions together through a series of exercises designed to help you practice your skills and develop your own project ideas and plan for next steps. The exercises will be led by two partners–one an academic, the other a community leader–committed to environmental justice, who will provide insights and examples from their experience.

Registration is free but required. Priority will be given to ASLE members, but all are welcome to sign up and will be accommodated if space is available; a waitlist will be kept as needed. A full recording of this workshop will NOT be posted, but slides, notes, and the series of exercises will be shared. If you are interested but not able to attend live, please note that on the registration form and you will receive the post-event materials.

Host: Aubrey Streit Krug, ASLE Public Engagement Officer

Featured guests:

Mona Munroe-Younis is the Executive Director of Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint. She has an M.S. in environmental justice (EJ) and policy from U-M Ann Arbor, and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science & Planning from UM-Flint. She brings nearly 20 years of experience in partnership development, teaching, curriculum/training development, and community engagement/organizing. Mona served as a neighborhood planner, liaison between U-M Public Health and the Flint community for the Flint water crisis response, and volunteer EJ Action Group coordinator for Sierra Club Michigan. Mona serves on the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition Board and MI Advisory Council for Environmental Justice.

Pamela Carralero is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Kettering University. She is also serving as ASLE’s Regional Collaboraties Chair, which sits on the organization’s Executive Council. She teaches and researches at the intersection of ecocriticism and environmental futures. In the classroom, she strengthens STEM students’ capacity to assess the socio-environmental impact of their work. Pamela is also a climate resilience practitioner in Flint, MI. She is the Principal Investigator of Climate Resilient Flint (climateresilientflint.com), a climate literacy, community-driven project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Environmental Literacy Program.