Rebecca Bratspies-Jaclyn Spencer

Rebecca Bratspies is a Professor at CUNY School of Law and the founding director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform. A scholar of environmental justice, and human rights, she has written scores of law review articles.

Her most recent book Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues and Heroes Behind New York Place Names.won the New York Public Historians’ 2023 Excellence in Local History Award.

Bratspies is best known for her EPA award-winning comic books The Environmental Justice Chronicles (with artist Charlie LaGreca-Velasco.)