NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH FEATURED SPEAKER: Rowen White
NOV
30
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
About Rowen White:
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper/farmer and author from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty. She is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds, an innovative Indigenous seed bank and land-based educational organization located in Nevada City CA. Rowen is the Founder of the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network, which is committed to restoring the Indigenous Seed Commons, and currently serves as a Cooperative Seed Hub Coordinator. She facilitates creative hands-on workshops and strategic conversations in community around seed/food security around the country within tribal and small farming communities. As a farmer, mentor, leader, writer, and storyteller Rowen is deeply committed to a lifelong practice of embodied prayer that contributes to cultivating a culture of belonging in our ways of nourishing ourselves. She is part of a collective movement to reseed imaginations of a more beautiful and nourishing future through uplifting and mentoring emerging changemakers, visionaries, community members, and creative humans who are making nourishing contributions at the intersections of the landscape of food sovereignty and cultural revitalization. She believes that by cultivating creative supportive learning spaces, reclaiming narratives, and practicing radical imagination, we can work together to seed the change for a more equitable and beautiful relational, kincentric food system that centers around a deep sense of belonging and connection.
About Sierra Seeds:
Sierra Seeds is a living seed bank and farm centered on values-aligned cultural stewardship of land, seeds, cultural memory and dignified resurgence of a culture of belonging in our seed and foodways. We center our changemaking in amplifying storytelling, creativity and centers restoration of relationships.
In our programming, both in-person and virtually, Sierra Seeds seeks to reseed imaginations of a more beautiful and nourishing world through uplifting and mentoring emerging mentors, changemakers, visionaries, and creative humans who are making nourishing contributions at the intersections of the landscape of food and seed sovereignty and cultural revitalization, who are cultivating foodways that grow from a foundation of belonging, connection, and culture.
We believe through the power of cultivating creative supportive learning spaces, circles, and curricula we can work together to seed the change for a more equitable and beautiful food system that centers around a deep sense of belonging and connection.
To find out more, visit their website at www.sierraseeds.org or follow her on social media”
Registration:
Rowen White’s presentation will begin promptly at 1pm Eastern Time on Thursday, November 30th. Please register in advance to receive a zoom link: