Robin Saha

Robin Saha is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program. Robin is a environmental justice scholar-activist with ten years of experience working across racial, class and ethnic boundaries to assist disproportionately impacted communities in participating effectively in environmental decision making processes. Robin is co-author of Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, a commemoration and update of a landmark report that launched the environmental justice movement. He has special interests in Superfund and facility siting processes. Robin received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. He uses community-based participatory research (CBPR) as a strategy to develop collaborative partnerships to build community capacity to resolve persistent environmental problems. He has worked intensively with the Superfund community of Opportunity, Montana, and is currently using CBPR to resolve community conflicts on Blackfeet Reservation. Robin also teaches about tribal natural resource management issues and recently helped organize and evaluate the 8th National Conference on Tribal Environmental Management.