Webinar - Restoring Communities Through Ecological Thinking & Action

How can ecological frameworks help restore relationships with the land? Although many ecological restoration paradigms can overlook human communities, human food webs play an outsized role in structuring ecosystems and landscapes. This webinar explores those relationships of food, culture, and ecological restoration.

Speakers:

• Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Binnizá & Maya Ch’orti’) is a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest.  Dr. Hernandez is the author of the award winning book ​Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science. She is currently writing her second book Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots of Climate Displacement & Justice.
• Dr. Suzanne Pierre is soil microbial ecologist and biogeochemist, writer, and transformer of social systems. She is the founder and the lead investigator of the Critical Ecology Lab, a nonprofit organization creating novel processes and spaces for communities of people with scientific and generational knowledge to destabilize oppressive systems and fight back against escalating social and planetary disaster. 

This webinar is being organized by SER Northeast and is part of a series funded with a grant from the SER Partnership Fund.