Ingrid Waldron | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Ingrid Waldron

Dr. Ingrid Waldron is a professor in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University and the director of the NGO Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project  (The ENRICH Project), which is investigating the socio-economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities. The ENRICH Project formed the basis of Dr. Waldron’s first book There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. The 2020 Netflix documentary There’s Something in the Water  is based on Dr. Waldron’s book and was co-produced by Waldron, Elliot Page, Ian Daniel and Julia Sanderson.

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