Dielle Lundberg:
Project Manager & Co-Investigator

Bio Statement:

Dielle J. Lundberg, MPH (she/her or ze/hir) is a project manager and co-investigator for the The Aftermath Learning Lab where she has contributed to research activities, dissemination, and coordinating art-based collaborations with community partners since 2019. Dielle is a health researcher in training and a multi-media artist interested in the ways art can foster connection, engagement, and health. Ze examines disability, neurodivergence, structural ableism, and health equity in hir scientific and artistic scholarship.

Dielle has been involved in The Aftermath Learning Lab since its founding in 2019 and is drawn to its practice-based research because of its interdisciplinary nature and approach to engaging artists. Her work with The Aftermath Learning Lab is currently on a part-time and volunteer basis. She has over a decade of activity on the issue of global textile pollution and of collaboration with principal investigator Julia DeVoy, collaborator Matilda Lartey, and the community partner organization The Matilda Flow Inclusion Foundation (The MFI Foundation). She is a co-founder of Make Fashion Clean (MFC) where she also acts as a part-time project coordinator.

Across her portfolio of work, Dielle values critical reflection, personal and professional growth, and ongoing learning and evolution of practices to advance equity within collaborations. Dielle is a disabled, neurodivergent, transfeminine person. She is a white settler and identifies with/within the queer, crip, and mad communities. Ze currently lives in Seattle, Washington on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples past and present including all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations.

Learn more about Dielle on her website.

Selected Publications:

1. Julia E. DeVoy, Elizabeth Congiusta, Dielle J. Lundberg, Sarah Findeisen, and Sunand Bhattacharya. “Post-Consumer Textile Waste and Disposal: Differences by Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Retail Factors.” Waste Management 136 (December 2021): 303–309. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.10.009.

2. Dielle J. Lundberg and Julia E. DeVoy. “The Aftermath of Fast Fashion: How Discarded Clothes Impact Public Health and the Environment.” Boston University School of Public Health. September 22, 2022. Available at: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/the-aftermath-of-fast-fashion-how-discarded-clothes-impact-public-health-and-the-environment/.

Selected Presentations & Other Media:

1. Dielle J. Lundberg. “Textile Waste as a Public Health Equity Issue and the Need for a Political and Structural Response.” Presented at the LEAPS 2023 Textile Waste Conference, Boston College, May 18, 2023. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_GrY-0L_s.

2. Julia E. DeVoy, Dielle J. Lundberg, Matilda Lartey, Mark Cooper, and Brian Smith. The Aftermath Documentary. The Boston College Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, 2022. Filmed and Edited by Cyrus Rosen, Qingwan (Cecelia) Cheng, Julia E. DeVoy, and Dielle J. Lundberg. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpzW3HOOqmw.

3. Julia E. DeVoy, Dielle J. Lundberg, Matilda Lartey, Mark Cooper, and Brian Smith. The Aftermath Sculpture. Multi-Media Textile Sculpture. The Boston College Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, 2021. View photos of the sculpture at: https://aftermathlearninglab.com/sculpture.

4. Sarah Findeisen, Elizabeth Congiusta, Julia E. DeVoy, and Dielle J. Lundberg. “Post-Consumer Textile Waste and Recycling: Differences by Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Retail Factors.” Eleventh International Conference on The Constructed Environment. May 2021. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDGkvnbKeg

5. Eva Ottum, Evan Warns, Julia E. DeVoy, and Dielle J. Lundberg. “Engineering a Bioreactor Using Frugal Innovation.” Eleventh International Conference on The Constructed Environment. May 2021. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFBxDTpvEwU.

Prior Collaboration on Grant-Funded Projects:

1. Julia E. DeVoy, Dielle J. Lundberg, Brian Smith, Mark Cooper, Matilda Lartey, Sunand Bhattacharrya, Martin Scanlan, and David Deese. “Development of an Educational, Multiplayer Video Game to Address Environmental Racism and Drive Political and Community Action.” The Boston College Schiller Institute Grant for Exploratory Collaborative Scholarship (SIGECS). 2022.

2. Julia E. DeVoy, Dielle J. Lundberg, Mark Cooper, Matilda Lartey, Brian Smith, Sunand Bhattacharrya, and Martin Scanlan. “Assessing Public Health and Environmental Racism Impacts of Textile Pollution through Computer-Based Social Justice Research and Multi-Media Art and Data Dissemination.” The Boston College Schiller Institute Grant for Exploratory Collaborative Scholarship (SIGECS). 2021.

3. Julia E. DeVoy, Dielle J. Lundberg, and Sunand Bhattacharrya. “Greenhouse Gas Generation and Other Human Health Effects of Post-Consumer Fashion Waste in the U.S.” The Boston College Schiller Ignite Grant. 2020.