ABSTRACT
Environmental injustice and inequity can be abstract concepts for those who do not experience them and brutally real for those who do. The in-class environmental privilege walk activity helps bring course units that focus on these issues to life. This exercise, inspired by Peggy McIntosh's "White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack", helps learners locate themselves within a spectrum of environmental privilege, centering the roles of socio-economic class, race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, and global disparities in environmental experience. The activity provides a foundation for understanding environmental injustice from the inside out, providing participants with a way to visualize privilege in their everyday experience. Those who have experienced environmental marginalization or injustice are able to reveal discrepancies and often find their experience feels more legitimated and their voices heard. As privilege manifests itself through each step during the activity, the notion of a universal or equitable sameness in environmental experience is disrupted.
