This chapter explores how teachers can support their students in developing digital media projects focused on climate justice in partnership with local communities that have been made to bear the brunt of environmental harms and are currently fighting for climate justice. It will discuss best practices and strategies for teaching students how to respectfully connect and interact with impacted communities, and specific methods for developing digital media projects that center the agency and expertise of communities while serving their needs. 

          The chapter will use as a case study sample projects from an Intro to Environmental Justice class at Stanford University to illustrate the carefully scaffolded process with examples of final digital media projects. Such examples include a student who partnered with two community organizations to create the first online map of active oil wells in California. The map will be used by the organizations to educate community members who live close to the wells about their rights. Another student partnered with an indigenous environmental organization in Hawaii to create a data visualization tool to show where and how native Hawaiians are being displaced by development; another student created a story map in partnership with a watershed council that retold the history of water governance in the region through indigenous perspectives. 

          By the end of the course, students created EJ podcasts, digital presentations, and blogs on a wide range of climate justice topics. The process of creating the community-centered digital media projects enabled students to develop skills in authentic and respectful community engagement; increased their awareness of the erasure of marginalized voices from mainstream media discourse about climate change; and fostered a nurturing community among the students who, through peer review and small in-class discussions, supported each other technologically, intellectually, and emotionally. 

           For some readings for Emily's Wild Readings/Wild Writing course.

          Paula Welander, Emily Polk receive Excellence in Teaching Awards