Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Injustice 

Organized by the Humanities Action Lab

Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street (entrance south side of 68th street between Park and Lexington Avenues)

August 31, 2026 – February 26, 2027

By appointment only.  To book a tour or workshop with a student docent, please email Annalisa LaPuma: annalisa.lapuma@hunter.cuny.edu

Climates of Inequality is a participatory public memory project created by students, educators, and community leaders in over 20 cities across the US and around the world. Local teams work together to activate the histories of “frontline” communities: those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis but bear its heaviest burdens. Their multi-media portraits expose the roots of current environmental injustice, and share generations of frontline communities’ strategies for resistance, resilience, and mitigation. The project promotes future visions for confronting the climate crisis that understand, and undo, past environmental harms. By compiling these histories in an evolving, internationally traveling exhibit with local events at every stop, this project seeks to affirm frontline communities’ work and inspire others to action for climate and environmental justice.

Climates of Inequality is a project of the Humanities Action Lab, a coalition of universities led by Hunter College working with issue organizations and public spaces to create traveling public projects on the past, present, and future of pressing social issues.

For more:

https://www.humanitiesactionlab.org/about/hal-hunter-college/coi-at-hunter/

https://www.humanitiesactionlab.org/about/hal-hunter-college/