Winona LaDuke will be at the University of Winnipeg on May 8th as part of the CLASS Institute “The University and the Public Good”.
Winona LaDuke CLASS Spring Institute Lecture, Q&A to follow May 8th, 2017, 6:00pm Eckhardt~Gramatte Hall University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave
Seats can be reserved by a donation of $30 (subject to availability). Passes are also available that guarantee your admission to each keynote address and all panel discussions scheduled for the 2017 CLASS Spring Institute. More details here: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/class/institutes-events/2017-spring-institute/tickets-and-registration.html
Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party.
As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own community, 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 in the issues of culturally based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, and food systems. In this work, she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
The author of five books, including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and Last Standing Woman, she is widely recognized for her work on environmental and human rights issues.
