Matt LaVine is focused on racial, environmental, and social justice. In addition to being on the ground and in the streets, he is a race equity consultant and facilitator at The Center Consultancy in what is now known as Portland, Oregon (ancestral, rightful, occupied lands of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Kalapuya peoples, among other Indigenous peoples of the lower Columbia and Willamette Rivers). Prior to this, Matt was Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and a DEI Analyst at SUNY Potsdam (ancestral, rightful, occupied lands of the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy). teaching courses on Africana philosophy, environment…
Matt LaVine is focused on racial, environmental, and social justice. In addition to being on the ground and in the streets, he is a race equity consultant and facilitator at The Center Consultancy in what is now known as Portland, Oregon (ancestral, rightful, occupied lands of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Kalapuya peoples, among other Indigenous peoples of the lower Columbia and Willamette Rivers). Prior to this, Matt was Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and a DEI Analyst at SUNY Potsdam (ancestral, rightful, occupied lands of the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy). teaching courses on Africana philosophy, environmental ethics and justice, residential segregation, global intellectual and cultural history, mathematics, logic, and the history of analytic philosophy. While he was very excited to move outside of the confines of higher education and into the community at The Center, he still regularly engages in writing, lecturing, and podcasting on racial justice, gender justice, and environmental justice. Check out his writings with Dr. Claudia J. Ford on Environmental Radicalism, as well as his podcast cohosted with Dr. Dwight K. Lewis Jr., Larger, Freer, More Loving.
