Angelica Chavez Duckworth
Director of Community Initiatives
Jellie focuses on keeping Greenlink's data-informed, community-driven orientation front and center. She oversees the qualitative research department, grounding policy and program design in lived experiences and environmental justice priorities. She has years of experience as a social scientist and community organizer investigating the nexus of housing, health, energy, and conservation. She is dedicated to deconstructing exploitative and extractive systems of production through research and organizing.
Jellie holds a Bachelors in Sociology with an emphasis in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and will be pursuing a Masters in Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 2025. She is the recipient of the Jensen Scholarship - a nominated, full-ride award administered by Johns Hopkins' Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and EA Engineering.
PUBLICATIONS
Chavez Duckworth, A. (2023, August 16). Unlikely partnerships… Cool, but how? Atlanta, GA: Greenlink Analytics: Greenlink Equity Map: GEM Stories. https://www.equitymap.org/post/unlikely-partnerships-cool-but-how
LivZero & Greenlink Analytics. (2023, June 07). Environmental justice in conservation: Neighborhood impacts of health, housing, and environmental burdens in Kansas City, MO. Atlanta, GA: Greenlink Analytics: Greenlink Equity Map: Publications. https://www.equitymap.org/_files/ugd/4aef44_ddeeb1e17800435885a66d21cac62ca5.pdf
Madhavan, S., Chavez Duckworth, A., Cox, W.M., & Gilley, M.W. (2023, March). Impacts of energy burden for Jacksonville - Energy burden impacts: Florida in focus. Atlanta, GA: Greenlink Analytics: Publications. https://www.greenlinkanalytics.org/_files/ugd/4aef44_52ba126b99f249a0ac89b5123b917dee.pdf
Madhavan, S., Chavez Duckworth, A., Cox, W.M., & Gilley, M.W. (2023, February). Impacts of energy burden for Orlando - Energy burden impacts: Florida in focus. Atlanta, GA: Greenlink Analytics: Publications. https://www.greenlinkanalytics.org/_files/ugd/4aef44_4b782937567a457fb85845b030d71453.pdf
LivZero & Greenlink Analytics. (2022, August 24). Health equity quantitative analysis for Vibrant Health: Health, socioeconomic, and environmental impacts in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Atlanta, GA: Greenlink Analytics: Greenlink Equity Map: Publications. https://www.equitymap.org/_files/ugd/4aef44_85af94b78d9145ad8bb1a05211fc04f0.pdf