Date And Time
Mon, October 21, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Location
Joe Crowley Student Union Ballrooms
1664 North Virginia Street 087
Reno, NV 89503
Please join the Gender, Race and Identity Program for keynote speaker and renowned indigenous leader, Winona Laduke.
About this Event
Winona LaDuke is an internationally acclaimed activist and scholar who examines issues at the intersection of Indigenous Economics, Food and Energy Policy. LaDuke is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project which is one of the largest reservation based non-profit organizations in the country. She is a leader in culturally based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, and food systems where she works to protect Indigenous plants, water rights, and native foods from patenting, privatization, and genetic engineering. LaDuke is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Honor the Earth, an organization that is dedicated to social justice as it relates to indigenous peoples, the environment, and climate change. LaDuke was a pivotal leader at Standing Rock, the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline on the part of water protectors, and continues to speak against corporate control over natural resources. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she is a public scholar and activist known and revered internationally for her leadership.
LaDuke is the author of numerous books, articles, and speeches. Some of her featured works include: Last Standing Woman (1997), The Sugar Bush (1999), Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), The Militarization of Indian Country (2011 and 2017 with forward on Standing Rock) and the Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Frontline in the Battle for Environmental Justice. Her activist work and writing has been featured on DemocracyNow, National Public Radio, TedTalks, HuffPost, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Salon, Ms Magazine, and more. In 2007 LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors for women leaders in the US. In 1994 LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, Ms. Woman of the Year (with the Indigo Girls in 1997), and the Reebok Human Rights Award. The White Earth Land Recovery Project, which she founded, has won many awards including the prestigious 2003 International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic engineering. Her most recent work included her role as founder of 8th Fire Solar which is an organization promoting renewable energy through the use of solar thermal panels.