Winona LaDuke
"Activism, Justice and Future Generations"
April 11, 2012
Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont Street
6:00-7:30 PM
Drawing from her publication, Reclaiming the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming, former Green Party vice-presidential running mate (1996 and 2000), Winona LaDuke, discusses the critical social and political issues of our times and a vision for the future. LaDuke will explore what is sacred and how to access it in order to work towards justice for Native Americans.
"Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective"
April 12, 2012
Student Center 120A
9:45-11:15 AM
Winona LaDuke, Native American author, activist and environmental advocate will discuss culturally-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems with a focus on environmental justice grounded in indigenous thought.
BIO: Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. LaDuke is a founder and Co-Director of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for native environmental groups. With Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on issues of climate change, renewable energy, sustainable development, food systems and environmental justice. An unwavering advocate for change, LaDuke notably served as Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections.
In her own community in northern Minnesota, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non-profit organizations in the country, and a leader on the issues of culturally-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. Additionally, LaDuke works to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
Her honors include the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Ann Bancroft Award, the Global Green Award, and the prestigious International Slow Food Award for working to protect wild rice and local biodiversity. In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
In addition to numerous articles, LaDuke is the author of a number of non-fiction titles including All Our Relations, The Winona LaDuke Reader, Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming, Food is Medicine: Recovering Traditional Foods to Heal the People and her latest, The Militarization of Indian Country. She has also penned a work of fiction, Last Standing Woman, and a children's book, In the Sugarbush.
Art Munin
"Color by Number: Understanding Racism Through Facts and Stats on Children"
April 16, 2012
Student Center 314AB
6:00-7:30 PM
A workshop with social justice educator Art Munin, featuring his recent publication which provides a fact-based, antiracism resource for the promotion of diversity and social justice through education. Taking a life course perspective which starts at children's youngest moments in this world through their enrollment into higher education, this workshop will expose the insidious reality of racism and offer strategies for becoming a social change agent.
BIO: Art Munin serves as the Dean of Students at DePaul University, working extensively with student advocacy, education, wellness, and conduct. In addition, Art serves as an adjunct professor at DePaul for the First Year and Counseling Programs and at Loyola University Chicago for the Higher Education program, teaching a course entitled “Social Justice in Higher Education.” Art is a practiced and experienced consultant, having started his own company in 2004. In the years since, he has worked with a variety of educational institutions, not-for-profits, and municipalities all over the country by providing workshops and consultation on diversity and justice education, ally development, White privilege, socially just decision making, and leadership. He earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and an M.Ed. in Community Counseling at Loyola University Chicago, an M.A. in Multicultural Communication at DePaul University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Eastern Illinois University. Art has multiple authorships to his credit. His most recent work, Color by Number: Understanding Racism through Facts and Stats on Children, will be published in April 2012.
