MELDI RELEASES EXPANDED COLLECTION OF PROFILES OF MINORITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS ONLINE.

Back by popular demand! MELDI has collected additional profiles and is releasing online an expanded version of the Profiles of Minority Environmental Professionals who have had Outstanding Careers in the Environmental Field. This database contains more than 200 profiles of people of color who have built successful careers in many areas of the environmental field. The online database combines the profiles originally contained in the reports, The Paths We Tread and The Journey Continues. In addition, new profiles have been added. This is the largest collection of profiles of People of Color environmental professionals in existence. But we are not done yet! We are still collecting profiles and will be expending this database. If you are a person of color and has had an outstanding environmental career (or know of such a person) please go to the Submit page on this website and provide us with information to complete a profile.

Stephanie, an undergraduate in a college environmental program where she encounters no other student of color and has no faculty of color in her program sent us a note after reading the profiles, “I can’t tell you how happy I was to come across and read the profiles. It feels great to know that other people like myself are involved in the environment too.” A teacher in an environmental high school where more than 70 percent of the students are students of color said, “I use the profiles to help our students find role models. We have a difficult time, particularly with our young black and Hispanic males. They don’t see themselves represented in environmental organizations so they switch their majors when it is time to go to college. I hope they can find mentors from looking at these profiles.”