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English: Dr. Ingrid Waldron, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS and the ENRICH Project (Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health).

Ingrid Waldron is a sociologist, and Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University and the Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project). Her research and teaching focus on environmental racism and environmental justice; the impacts of racism and other forms of discrimination on health and mental health in Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities; the lived experiences and treatment preferences of Black, Indigenous and other culturally diverse adults living with symptoms of depression and anxiety; and intimate partner violence experienced by racially and culturally diverse women in mid-life. In 2018, Dr. Waldron was awarded the President’s Excellence Research Award – Research Impact at Dalhousie University.

Her first book There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities was released in April 2018 by Fernwood Publishing.