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Julianne Tharp

Julianne serves GASP as the Field and Advocacy Fellow. She has worked and volunteered within the nonprofit field for five years and continues to pursue excellence through her work supporting GASP and other environmental nonprofit organizations. Julianne attributes her passion for environmental justice to her roots in the Philippines, a third-world country experiencing some of the major consequences of climate change. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Environmental Health, Policy, and Management from Samford University. In her spare time Julianne enjoys playing card games with her husband while their three dogs and one cat vie for attention.
COMMUNITY CHRONICLES #8: Charlie Powell – PANIC

COMMUNITY CHRONICLES #8: Charlie Powell – PANIC

by | Sep 4, 2024

Before the creation of the Clean Air Act in 1970, “It used to just rain stuff on us. You know, it would be all on our houses.” Powell’s family would hang their clean clothes on a drying line outside and have to bring them back in before too long because soot would make them dirty again. “I believe up until this day, if any of our fathers knew they (were) bringing us into an environment like this here, they never would (have).” Powell will never understand how two coke plants (ABC Coke and Bluestone Coke) were able to be built three miles from each other.

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLES #7 Linda Carr (Harriman Park)

COMMUNITY CHRONICLES #7 Linda Carr (Harriman Park)

by | Apr 3, 2024

Linda Carr lived in the Harriman Park neighborhood long enough to see the street she grew up on transform from Huntsville Row into Shuttlesworth Drive in 1988. The street was renamed to honor Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a prominent leader during the Civil Rights Movement and a founder of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR). This transformation symbolized a shift in recognition, yet the legacy of environmental degradation persisted.

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