Mijin Cha

J. Mijin Cha is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a fellow at the Worker Institute, Cornell University where she works on the Labor Leading on Climate initiative. Dr. Cha’s research focuses on labor/climate coalitions and how to actualize just transitions. She is a part of the Just Transition Listening Project research team, which was the first effort of its kind to interview over 100 individuals on their experience with industrial transition. Along with her colleagues, she also developed a novel framework for developing just transition policies and conducted a four-state study of what is needed for a just transition and how to build progressive power at the state level.