BJ Cummings

BJ Cummings facilitates and advises on community engaged research initiatives for the University of Washington (UW) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and UW Center for Disaster Resilient Communities. Cummings is the author and producer of numerous articles, books and documentary films on environmental health and justices issues locally and throughout the Americas, including co-author of the Duwamish Valley Cumulative Health Impacts Analysis (DRCC 2013), Duwamish River Superfund Cleanup Plan Health Impact Assessment (UW/DRCC 2013), and author of The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish (UW Press 2020). 

Cummings founded the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition in 2001, served as the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance's "Soundkeeper" from 1994–99, and as Sustainable Seattle's Executive Director from 2016–18. She holds a master's degree in environmental geography from University of California Los Angeles.