UO Today interview: John Arroyo, Director, PNW Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice

John Arroyo is an assistant professor in the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon. Professor Arroyo is an affiliated faculty member in the Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies department as well as in the Historic Preservation program at the UO in Portland. He serves on the boards of the Center for Environmental Futures, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, and the Collaborative for Inclusive Urbanism. In January 2021, the University of Oregon received a 4.52-million-dollar grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice (JFI). Arroyo, JFI's director, discusses the mission of JFI