Ingrid Waldron
Dr. Ingrid Waldron is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, the Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project), and the Flagship Project Co-Lead of Improving the Health of People of African Descent at Dalhousie’s Healthy Populations Institute. As the Director of the ENRICH Project over the last 8 years, Dr. Waldron has been investigating the socio-economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities. The ENRICH Project also formed the basis to Dr. Waldron’s first book There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was published in 2018 by Fernwood Publishing. The Netflix documentary is based on Dr. Waldron’s book and was co-produced by Waldron, actress Ellen Page, Ian Daniel, and Julia Sanderson, and co-directed by Page and Daniel.
SELECTED CITATIONS
There’s Something In The Water Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities - By Ingrid R. G. Waldron
Environmental Racism in Canada: How hazardous facilities disproportionately affect Indigenous and Black Nova Scotian communities - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada
Author Ingrid Waldron on Africville and the history of environmental racism in Canada - The Globe and Mail
‘This is about vulnerability’: Ingrid Waldron on the links between environmental racism and police brutality - The Narwhal
Ellen Page, Dal Health Researcher's Film Releases on Netflix - Dalhousie University, Faculty of Health
Nature’s Past Episode 69: Environmental Racism and Canadian History - NiCHE Canada
Redeye: Racism and the Black body
Dr. Ingrid Waldron wins Errol Sharpe Book Prize - Dalhousie University, Faculty of Health
There’s something in the water: meet four women combating environmental racism in Nova Scotia - NB Media Co-op
Ellen Page on Her Environmental Doc's Timeliness During Coronavirus: "It's Profit Over People" - The Hollywood Reporter
Ellen Page’s documentary on N.S. environmental racism now streaming on Netflix - Global News