Duke Sanford Black Policy Conference
Public Health and Environmental Justice Workshops
We are super excited to share our workshops! See below for workshop leads and titles.
How to Advocate for Yourself and Your Healthcare with Evan Mark Ferry, FNP
Narrative as Infrastructure: Narrative Strategy As A Tool for Environmental Justice with Cameron Oglesby
Cameron Oglesby
Cameron is an internationally award-winning environmental justice (EJ) organizer, strategist, and storyteller who has worked for nearly a decade to establish climate education programs, redistribute resources to frontline organizers, report on environmental racism, climate, policy, and land in the U.S., and advise multi-sectoral partners on initiatives from ideation to impact evaluation.
Cameron received her Master in Public Policy and Bachelors in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University. She previously worked as the Senior Officer for Rural Outreach at Climate United/Calvert Impact and as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, where she supported strategy and helped redirect capital to critical solutions for people and the planet.
Cameron is the founder and project lead of theEnvironmental Justice Oral History Project – an educational repository that combines diverse storytelling traditions to document EJ in the U.S. Southeast. She’s been featured on panels, in the written word, and in documentary film alongside the originators of the Environmental Justice Movement, and continues to work directly with foundations and several Southeast organizations on their strategy-building, capacity-building, and storytelling efforts. In collaboration with movement leaders, she has contributed a chapter on building narrative power for EJ movements to the Liberation Stories anthology (The New Press, 2025), and is currently working with movement leaders to write a primer on the history of environmental racism in the U.S.
Cameron is a National Geographic Young Explorer; a Young, Gifted, and Green 40 Under 40 Awardee; an Aspen Institute Future Leader Climate Fellow; and a 30 Under 30 Leader with the North American Association for Environmental Education. She has spoken about community narrative and organizing as a powerful climate solution on numerous panels, including with the EPA, CEC, and NATO. Cameron’s reporting has been recognized by the Sierra Club, Southern Environmental Law Center, Covering Climate Now, and the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Her work is inspired by her own connection to ancestral farmland that’s been in her family for 100 years.