Winter Environmental Health Event

Date: Saturday – Dec 14th, 2024

Dr. Raymond Tompkins

Dr. Raymond Joseph Tompkins

San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University, University of California at Berkeley

DEREK L. TOLIVER

DEREK L. TOLIVER

United States Army Reserve Ambassador California

RSVP
12+ Age Limit
Closed Event

Guest Speakers

Dr. Raymond Tompkins

DR. RAYMOND JOSEPH TOMPKINS

University of California at Berkeley – Lecturer, College of Engineering M.E.S.A Program, Berkeley, CA.

San Francisco State University – Adjunct Associate Dean, Lecturer, Curriculum Design

Peralta Community College District – Chair & Lecturer, Vista Community College, Berkeley, CA, Department of International Trade.

San Francisco City College – Lecturer

DEREK L. TOLIVER

Derek L. Toliver is a distinguished professional with over 38 years of experience. A graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in San Francisco, he holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University and additional credentials from UC Berkeley, Villanova University, and the U.S. Army War College. As a seven-time President’s Club Award-winning Scientific and Medical Sales Executive, he has worked with organizations like the EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and San Francisco Public Health Dept., promoting public health and environmental sustainability in underserved communities such as Bayview Hunters Point.

Toliver is the Founder and CEO of the SF Black Leadership Academy Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit inspiring urban youth and families to pursue careers in STEM, health, education, arts, and sports. In 2022, he was appointed as a U.S. Army Reserve Ambassador for California, a role that involves advocating for the Army Reserves and supporting educational scholarships for ROTC students.

Program Schedule:

1 PM: WELCOME – STAFF INTRODUCTIONS: LONNIE MASON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FGEHED

1:10 PM: FGEHED VIDEO PRESENTATION: PERSPECTIVE MEDIA

1:30 PM: DR. RAYMOND TOMPKINS: SPEAKER

1:50 PM: AMBASSADOR DEREK TOLIVER: Guest Speaker Of The United States Army Reserve

2:15 PM: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: GUESTS

2:30 PM: CLOSING REMARKS: LONNIE MASON

ENJOY YOUR MEAL!

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Dredging Contaminated Soil
Escavator

Around the corner in this Daly City community, bulldozers cast diesel fumes into the air as workers clad in hazardous-materials jumpsuits rip up her once neatly groomed neighborhood park, now festooned with dozens of warning signs: CAUTION. NO TRESPASSING. HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS.

PM2.5 Hazards
Homeless Shelter

Environmental justice advocate Ray Tompkins says homeless shelter residents are forced to breathe air filled with tiny particles that can become embedded deep in the lungs due to placement near cement factories.

Sewage Plant
Waste Water

The impoverished, isolated and largely African American neighborhoods didn’t always have the dubious distinction of being San Francisco’s outhouse. Until a revamping of the city’s sewer system in the 1970s, only 20 percent of the city’s sewage went to the area’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant. Since the revamp, residents there have beseeched the city to do something about the plant’s odor and the unfair sewage burden placed on them with more sewage to come.

NRDL Facility
Radioactive Sign

The United States Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL) was an early military lab created to study the effects of radiation and nuclear weapons. The facility was based at the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California. Activities of the facility led to:

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