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Monitoring Air Quality as a Lesson in Climate Change, Civic Engagement and Latino Community Leadership

Inside Climate News · Lydia Larsen · last updated

As smoke from the Canadian wildfires crept down into Madison, Yyare Parra de Oliveira watched the air quality index as it moved into extremes most people in the area had never experienced before. 

In addition to monitoring warnings issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Parra de Oliveira messaged her classmates at the Latino Academy of Workforce Development about their newly installed air quality monitors, which they had placed in neighborhoods with environmental justice concerns.

Parra de Oliveira, an environmental compliance officer now back in her native Venezuela working as a bilingual secretary, encountered problems placing the device in a community setting and went with a nearby solution: She put up a monitor on her house. 

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