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= Adrienne Hollis = Adrienne Hollis is the Senior Climate Justice & Health Scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and over 20 year veteran of the environmental justice and public health community. Hollis has worked with the justice departments as well as served as a board member of several environmental organizations, including the EPA, the American Public Health Association, and the Endangered Species Coalition. Hollis currently focuses on law pertaining to environmental and public health issues that affect underprivileged communities, particularly communities of color.

Education
Hollis obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Jackson State University before moving on to gain both a PhD in biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College as well as a Justice Degree from Rutgers Law School. Hollis also completed a series of postdoctoral studies at Harvard University School of Public Health.

Career
Following her postdoctoral studies, Hollis went on to work at several environmental agencies, starting with her position as section chief at the Agency for Toxic and Disease Registry in Atlanta, Georgia. She then worked with Florida A & M University's Institute of Public Health, eventually becoming a tenured professor. Hollis left this position to pursue her law degree from Rutgers Law School before working as an attorney for Earthjustice, an environmental nonprofit law firm. In 2016 Hollis took the position of the Director of Federal Policy for WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a nonprofit environmental justice group founded to aid minority and low-income communities with public health issues. Hollis remained in the position until 2019 when she joined the Union of Concerned Scientists as their Senior Climate Justice & Health Scientist. The UCS is an independent, non profit organization dedicated to research and policy-making on environmental and public health issues. Hollis maintains much of her role as previous position for WE ACT, ensuring minority and low-income communities are properly and equally addressed in environmental policy. Her latest work includes research on COVID-19 disproportionately affecting low-income communities due to relevant policies by the current administration neglecting to address existing public health concerns.

Media Coverage
Hollis has been featured in an article from Time magazine as well as several other environmental publications such as the Scientific American and The Nation's Health, a publication by the American Public Health Association.