Dr. Yomi Noibi
ECO-Action
asnoibi@gmail.com
https://eco-act.org/

Dr. Yomi Noibi  has held a diversity of positions in the fields of environmental health and justice; he held teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin(Green Bay) and the University of Lagos before moving on to lead the Education Department and served as Project Director for the Nigerian Conservation Foundation. After leaving the Foundation, he became engaged with Environmental Community Action (ECO-Action)-- beginning as a community organizer and eventually serving as ECO-Action's Executive Director from 2005 to 2022.  He worked in both academia and industry  before the need and challenge of transferring  environmental health knowledge and research findings into intervention strategies that prevent and reduce exposure to environmental hazards changed his perspective on his academic and professional aspirations. ECO-Action gave him opportunities to deepen his learning about community organizing and collaboration through learning from the people confronting environmental health hazards and learning the community change process. After a yearlong program at the Center for Community Change, he co-developed ECO-Action's Training the Trainer Series-A Learning Initiative for Social Change,  and became Director of Training at ECO-Action. He teaches with knowledge and passion to meet people where they are and challenge people to share what they have learned with others. Through experience with community health education, he has honed his capacity to communicate study findings in a way that effectively demonstrates the public health relevance of the research. His research portfolio includes work on noise, lead, and environmental enforcement orders and environmental protection, and he has lent his experience and expertise toward the coordination and facilitation of the Grassroots Environmental Network and the Atlanta Watershed Learning Network (AWLN) - both of which exposed him to the challenges of collaboration and helped him develop strategies to overcome those challenges. He has worked with the residents of English Avenue and Vine City and collaborating partners such as the Community Improvement Association, the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, and the English Avenue  Neighborhood Association for many years and has taught - informally and formally - and ever increasing number of people about the Precautionary Principle ("Better Safe than Sorry") while helping to grow the Proctor Creek Stewardship Council. Dr. Yomi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Science Education with a focus on Environmental Science and Industrial Hygiene and Safety.