Community-Based Restorative Design
Season 3: Episode 5
How do you best create positive impact in communities? What does environmental justice look like?
In this fifth episode of season 3, Pamela Fann joins Eric to share her journey from Corporate America to diversity, inclusion, integration, and climate activist and entrepreneur. She shares how she defines restorative design, environmental justice, and how best we use their principles to tackle both the entangled issues of racism and our climate crisis.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guest
Pamela Fann, an award-winning diversity specialist, and speaker is the Founder and CEO of Integrated Solutions. Integrated Solutions is a Diversity, Inclusion, and Integration consulting company that develops frameworks to successfully and sustainably implement diversity within organizations. Integrated Solutions mission is to drive industry transformation through organizational cultural competency, workforce development, caring conversations, and additional diversity advisory services.
Pam is also a co-owner/principal of Impact Energy, a certified Black women-owned energy services company that focuses on energy efficiency project implementation and workforce development. Their mission is to promote equitable job expansion within the energy industry that positively impacts lives and supports community economic advancement.
Pam has a degree in Marketing, a certification in Human Resource Management, and is a Certified Cultural Diversity Professional and Trainer (CDP, CDT). She also holds a certification in Understanding Diversity and Inclusion from Perdue University. Pam served on a diversity board for more than 7 years with The Coca-Cola Company. Currently serves as the diversity advisor for the BECC conference and on the boards and advisory boards for Women of EVs, Diversity Executive Leadership Academy, and Strategic Energy Innovations. She also is a lead author for the Energy Equity Project, served as an SME for Drawdown Georgia, RCE Atlanta Advancing Justice for All, and Community of Practice committees, and served on the JEDI Advisory Board for the DOE/NREL Innovation Prize.
Pamela is also co-executive director of Maa Eagles Foundation U.S., supporting girls from Maasai tribes in Tanzania with education opportunities. Providing education for these girls keeps them from getting “sold” off at a young age for marriage and gives them hope for a future. In addition, climate change disproportionately impacts women and girls in underdeveloped countries at a higher rate. Across the globe, women have had less access than men to resources such as land, credit, agriculture inputs, decision-making structures, technologies, training, and extension services that would enhance their capacity to adapt to climate change. Educating young women and girls is one way to help mitigate this and change their lives.
On the web
Resources from the episode
EERE Competitions, Challenges, and Industry Prizes
Drawdown solution(s):
Electricity, Health & Education
Episode topic tags:
environmental justice, equity, restorative design, renewable energy, systemic racism, community, social impact, diversity, inclusion, DEI
Find more about how to teach climate design in your classroom at www.climatedesigners.org/edu
Music in this episode
Nature sound effect by bbc.co.uk – ©2023 BBC
Theme music by Casual Motive
Design Team
Consulting
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
