

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: We Live Here: Community Power and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The event will bring together scholars, students, and community members to reflect on environmental racism and the fight for health equity.About this EventWe Live Here: Community Power and the Struggle for Environmental JusticeCommunity Over Chaos Speaker Series: Part of the 250 Conversations on America Series in collaboration with Dialogue Vanderbilt.This conversation on environmental justice and community-led resistance in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley will feature Sharon Lavigne and Shamyra Lavigne of RISE St. James. They will reflect on grassroots organizing, environmental racism in their community, and the fight for health equity and dignity in the frontline communities.Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, is a lifelong resident of St. James Parish and a retired special-education teacher turned nationally recognized environmental justice leader. In 2018, she launched RISE St. James to mobilize faith-based and community resistance against the proliferation of petrochemical plants in the region. Her leadership was instrumental in stopping a proposed plastics facility by Formosa Plastics Corp., and her work has earned widespread recognition, including the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize. Sharon’s advocacy is deeply rooted in her faith, her family, and her unwavering belief that her community deserves clean air, clean water, and respect.Shamyra Lavigne, Executive Assistant at RISE St. James, represents a new generation of environmental justice leadership. Working alongside her mother, she brings lived experience, organizing skill, and youth-driven urgency to the struggle against industrial pollution in St. James Parish. Her work centers community health, environmental equity, and intergenerational organizing in a region long overburdened by industry.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/nashville/we-live-here-community-power-and-the-struggle-for-environmental-justice/100001978193789877
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Nashville
- **state**: TN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Vanderbilt Divinity School
- **lat**: 36.1466412
- **long**: -86.8008973
- **full address**: Vanderbilt Divinity School, 411 21st Ave S, Nashville, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements (https://allevents.in/org/james-lawson-institute-for-the-research-and-study-of-nonviolent-movements/20886115)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Vanderbilt Divinity School, 411 21st Ave S, Nashville, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about We Live Here: Community Power and the Struggle for Environmental Justice ?
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