What We Do

Transforming Systems

New Mexico Social Justice & Equity Institute (NMSJEI) advocates to transforming systems that sustain health disparities resulting from centuries of environmental deterioration by the uranium mining industry, institutional racism directed towards Indigenous communities, and multi-generational trauma.

NMSJEI works to:

Engage our community to execute collective action through education and institutional knowledge for working with various public and policy change arenas.
Organize and mobilize our cohort of informed and equipped community members to take action and address the issues that will improve their lives.
Sponsor training and provide technical assistance on conducting health impact assessments, an assessment tool that provides a set of evidence-based recommendations to inform decision-making.
Develop expertise in conducting health impact assessments that seek to maximize the positive health impacts and minimize the negative health impacts of proposed policies, programs, and projects.

Our Mission

Using a health equity lens, the New Mexico Social Justice & Equity Institute seeks to change systems that perpetuate environmental health disparities related to the impacts of institutional racism and multi-generational trauma, by empowering participating communities within the county to impact equitable policy change.

Our Vision

We have changed systems that perpetuated environmental and health disparities related to the impacts of institutional racism and multi-generational trauma. We have healthy communities in which the following elements are increasingly evident: