Traci Brynne Voyles
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is a professor and department chair of women’s and gender studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism and Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country.
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Many view the Salton Sea as an ecological disaster, or a wasteland. This public perception, which is bound up in environmental racism, continues to undermine conservation efforts.