Ms. Flocks is Director of the Social Policy Division at the Center for Governmental
Responsibility, University of Florida College of Law, where she teaches Poverty Law and a
seminar on Environmental Justice. She also teaches International Environmental Justice at the University of Florida/University of Costa Rica Joint Program in Environmental Law. The Center for Governmental Responsibility is Florida’s senior legal and public policy research institute. Ms.
Flocks’ current research focuses on inequities in natural and built environments—low-income
housing, pesticide exposure, and outreach to Superfund communities—and resolution of those
inequities. She has worked with low-income and minority communities in Florida for twenty
years, as a social and legal service provider, researcher, and project director.