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I'm Dr. Akilah Martin. I am a planner with

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the Chicago district of the United

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States Army Corps of Engineers.

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And currently I am a contributor on the

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DOD's

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climate action team. My focus is

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on community resilience and

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environmental justice,

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and so that means that I am working with

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certain individuals at the DOD

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that are trying to get together to

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really think about and confront and

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interrogate

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the term environmental justice, community

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resilience, as it relates to

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climate change and at the DOD

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installations.

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And so what I've learned so far is that

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the language that the, that the DOD uses

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to describe communities.

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I'm hoping that my what I think in my

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part what I believe what I would like to

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do is to help shift that language.

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And so to really think of these

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communities in a whole holistic way

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and from Bells Hooks' statement is this

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is a radical space for possibility, so

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I'm hoping to be able to open that space

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and be able to talk

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professionally and authentic about our

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language.