MarquetteWire, February 24, 2016: Notre Dame professor encourages Marquette to improve environment quality in low-income areas
“University of Notre Dame professor Kristin Shrader-Frechette visited Marquette Tuesday to suggest ways Milwaukee residents can improve the environment in low-income areas. Shrader-Frechette, who teaches philosophy and biological sciences, discussed environmental racism – when poorer, minority communities have worse environmental quality than wealthier, non-minority places. She said Milwaukee County, home to many low-income minority neighborhoods, is in the 10 percent of the most carcinogenic counties in the U.S.”