Environmental Justice + Health + Decarbonization

Howard University and Stanford University Washington D.C 2020 - Present 
Role: Creator and Faculty Instructor

Create courses and a pathway for advocacy of environmental justice to provide the skills needed for young professionals to contribute solutions to our global carbon challenges. 

As an advocate for Environmental Justice, Professor Nea Maloo developed a new architectural course curriculum. Her course “Building Decarbonization” serves as a foundational approach to “Environmental Justice (EJ) + Health + Decarbonization”- the new interdisciplinary course- designed by Maloo for Howard University, aims to put sustainable building practice at the center of environmental health, justice, and social equity. 

Professor Maloo was one of the twenty-six teachers from professional schools focusing on the built environment invited to the Green Reconstruction curricular workshop at the Buell Center. Her participation and input were crucial to the development of the project of Buell center’s new book green reconstruction - A curricular toolkit for the built environment. The book is available for everyone and has already influenced the approach to teaching the future generation. 

IMPACT 

• Nea Maloo was announced as the winner of the 2022 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Course Development Prize issued in collaboration with Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. The competitive prize recognizes exemplary course proposals on the designated theme of Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. 

• Nea Maloo ’s research strengthens the connections between education in architecture and urbanism and demonstrates how their collaboration can creatively and critically address the difficulties of climate change. 

• Nea Maloo presented her course at the national ACSA 110 symposium, with over 500 participants, including professors and administrators from universities across the United States.