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Advisor:��Professor Sutter��•��Maggie McNulty is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Colorado, Boulder with a focus on environmental and urban history, currently researching the history of race, spatial geography, and environmental activism in Denver, Colorado. McNulty’s dissertation,��“Legacy of Pollution: A History of Environmental Injustice��in Denver’s Most Polluted Zip Code,” explores the long history of industrialization, urbanization, and activism in a working-class Latinx neighborhood in Denver. Her research examines how the popular perception of Colorado as a place with a pristine environment collides with its legacy of pollution. A Philadelphia native, McNulty holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and bachelor’s degree from Drexel University. Maggie’s work has been published in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry��and Environmental Sociology��and has been generously supported by the History Department, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Center for Humanities & the Arts.��