The Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series is intended to highlight and unpack intersections of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and systems of power/privilege/oppression within the discourse and rhetoric of contemporary sustainability, environmental, and climate change movements.

Learn more about this semester’s speaker series below. We hope to see you there!

 If you are unable to attend in person, we invite you to join these talks on Zoom at tinyurl.com/DSSSspring25

Recordings of previous events in the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series can be found here:

• “We Have Always Been Scientists: Science, Sustainability & Indigenous Knowledge Systems” with Dr. Kaitlin Reed, Dr. Deepti Chatti, and Dr. Zoe Todd

• “Nobody Asked You John Muir - Settler Colonial Environmentalism, White Supremacy, and Sustainability” with Dr. Kaitlin Reed, Dr. Sarah Ray, and Dr. Heather Ponchetti Daly

• Indigenous Knowledge Cannot Be a Backup Plan: Collaboration, Sustainability & Decolonization with Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Dr. Brittani Orona, and Dr. Esme Murdock

• Forest Health Is Human Health: Indigenous Forestry & Place-Based Solutions by Dawn Blake with Dawn Blake

• A Short History of the Blockade, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson