Nov 3
Convocation: Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke is a Native American environmentalist and rural development economist working on sustainable development and food systems. The author of six books, including Recovering the Sacred, LaDuke is widely recognized for her work on environmental and human rights issues, as well as her international advocacy for indigenous peoples. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, where she is the founder of the reservation-based non-profit White Earth Land Recovery Project. She is also the executive director of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization that plays an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA, and currently serves on the advisory board of the Trust for Public Land’s Native Lands Program. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, LaDuke has won numerous honors and awards and is an inductee of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. According to LaDuke, “We are at this point, known in prophecies as the time of the 7th fire, where we have a choice. This a choice between a well-worn, scorched path and a new, green path. It is time to make the right choice and develop economics that support the new, green path.” The title of her presentation is “Economics for the Seventh Generation - Moving Forward.”