Dr. Clare Cannon, assistant professor of community and regional development in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, received the Early Career Award. According to IARSLCE, this award acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through an emerging body of work that has begun to demonstrate broad and deep impact on the study and/or practice of service-learning and community engagement, including the communities, cultures, and systems within which it is undertaken.

Cannon’s research uses transdisciplinary approaches with mixed methodologies, also including community-based participatory action research to study the processes and effects of environmental inequality and health disparities on social inequality. She has secured significant funding from the State of California for work on environmental justice and socio-economy of Clear Lake, CA. As a Public Scholarship Faculty Fellow, she recently expanded her work in environmental justice in California, developing a research partnership with Greenaction to understand environmental contaminants in Kettleman City, CA. This work was recently highlighted in the short documentary film, “Air, Water, Blood: The Power of Community-Engaged Research” by filmmaker Paige Bierma. 

“Dr. Cannon’s research collaborations center on community-based participatory action research projects that serve to advance our knowledge of environmental justice threats and solutions; as well as impart new skills to students, engender new areas of research-advocacy for faculty, and produce new partners for community organizations,” according to the IARSLCE award announcement.