Author Robin Wall Kimmerer Delivers Address to Hampshire Students on Environmental Justice

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Hampshire's 2023 common read book, "Braiding Sweetgrass," addressed the Hampshire community on February 13, 2024, with a presentation titled, “What does the earth ask of us?” In her talk, Kimmerer explored Indigenous perspectives on land conservation, from biocultural restoration to the concept of Land Back. Full of more provocative questions than answers, her presentation invited the Hampshire community to consider how engaging in traditional ecological knowledge contributes to justice for land and people.

Introductions were given by Andrew S. Yang, Jonathan Lash endowed professor of environmental studies, and Amy Jordan, associate professor of African American history. Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies Noah Romero presented a land acknowledgment.

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