Dr. Nicky Sheats
Director of the Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research at Kean University Dr. Nicky Sheats, Esq. has defined the primary mission of the Center as providing support for the environmental justice (EJ) community. Among the issues he works on are air pollution, climate change, cumulative impacts, developing EJ legal strategies and increasing the working capacity ofthe EJ community. Sheats was a founding member of the NJ EJ Alliance, EJ Leadership Forum, EJ and Science Initiative and an informal NE EJ Attorneys Group. He was appointed to the NJ Clean Air Council, EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and National EJ Advisory Council, and was a co-author of the human health chapter of the 2014 national climate assessment. He is currently serving on the White House EJ Advisory Council. Early in his career, Sheats practiced law as a public interest attorney. He holds a B.A. in economics from Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, J.D. and M.P.P. from Harvard University.
