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Northfield Mount Upward Bound Presents: Winona LaDuke,
July 19, 2018
Winona LaDuke will provide the keynote address at the 22nd Annual Northfield Mount Hermon Upward Bound Social Justice Conference: The Movement for Environmental Justice. This event is FREE, although a suggested donation of $5.00 will be accepted at the door. Winona LaDuke is a rural development economist and author working on issues of Indigenous Economics , Food and Energy Policy. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is the Executive Director of Honor the Earth (HtE). She co-founded HtE with the Indigo Girls, as a platform to raise awareness of and money for indigenous struggles for environmental justice. She works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice alongside Indigenous communities. 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. Globally and nationally, Winona is known as a leader in the issues of cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, and sustainable food systems. She is one of the leaders in the work of protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
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Rhodes Arts Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School,
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm