
Lindsay Savelli (she/her/hers) serves as the Program Manager for the Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic (EJ Clinic) at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. In this role, she collaborates with community partners on community-driven research and advocacy efforts to advance environmental justice in NC and across the southeast. She applies an equity/EJ lens with community-driven participatory action research approaches to conduct health surveys and environmental monitoring; prepare grant applications and reports; support strategic planning and visioning for the EJ Clinic and our partners; coordinate the activities of undergraduate and graduate research assistants; develop evaluation tools; and advocate for structural policy changes, including considerations of cumulative impacts in permitting processes. At Gillings, she also serves as Teaching Fellow for Capstone, a community-led, group-based, year-long, critical service-learning course designed to promote student co-learning and growth with ethical community-engagement approaches to advance health equity. Lindsay graduated from Gillings in 2022 with an MPH in Health Equity, Social Justice and Human Rights and a Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. Her interests include environmental justice, community-driven research and action, decolonizing research, and dismantling structural oppression in the US and in France. In her free time, Lindsay enjoys playing soccer, learning about plants and gardening, and spending time with friends and family.