# Slow Transparency: Lead, Water Crises, and the Formation of Publics #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 27, 2023** 03:00PM - 03:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge** The Mahindra Center invites you for an Environmental Humanities Seminar with **Kessie Alexandre**, an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. The Mahindra Center invites you for an Environmental Humanities Seminar with **Kessie Alexandre**, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation; Black geographies and diaspora; and the politics and ethics of infrastructure. Her book project, *Floods and Fountains: Urban Water Governance and Black Spatial Futures*, is an ethnography of urban water insecurity told through mundane and spectacular forms of infrastructure breakdown and with a vast repertoire of Black environmental organizing struggles in Newark, NJ*.* This research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Environmental Institute and Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Kessie has published writing in *Geoforum* and *Current Anthropology.* She received her PhD in Anthropology with a graduate certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University in 2020. Visit the [event page](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/environmental-humanities-seminar-kessie-alexandre) for more information and to register. Contact: See also:- [ Arts & Humanities ](/research-areas/arts-and-humanities) - [ Faculty of Arts and Sciences ](/school/faculty-arts-and-sciences) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.environment.harvard.edu/node/1497791/event-feed.ics) Copy link link